Boyd Bartlett

Boyd Wheeler Bartlett (June 20, 1897 – June 24, 1965) was an American military officer, professor, school administrator, and physicist.

Early life and education

Boyd Bartlett was born in Castine, Maine on June 20, 1897. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1917. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1919 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. on theoretical electromagnetism.

Career

After Bartlett returned from Europe, he began a teaching career in physics at Bowdoin College as professor of physics. When World War II started, he was called up as a colonel and assigned to the United States Military Academy. The head of the physics department there, Gerald Counts, was reassigned to Europe, and Bartlett stepped in as acting head of the department. When Counts returned after the war, Bartlett served as deputy head of the department, later, through a number of reorganizations and departmental name changes, he became head of the department of electricity, predecessor to the department of electrical engineering. He retained this position until his retirement and promotion to brigadier general in 1958.

Honors The United States Legion of Merit – For "exceptional foresight and success in instituting a course in atomic physics during the war" and outstanding leadership. Arnold Sommerfeld and B. W. Bartlett Über die longitudinale Widerstandsänderung im Magnetfelde nach der elementaren Theorie, Zeitschrift für technische Physik 16 500 (1935) B. W. Bartlett Coefficients of Friction Greater than Unity, American Journal of Physics 12 (2) 48 (1944). United States Military Academy, West Point, on leave of absence from Bowdoin College. B. W. Bartlett Physics at the United States Military Academy, American Journal of Physics 12 (4) 78-91 (1944). United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, on leave of absence from Bowdoin College. B. W. Bartlett Coefficients of Friction Greater than Unity, American Journal of Physics 12 (2) 48 (1944). Colonel, U. S. Army, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, on leave of absence from Bowdoin College. B. W. Bartlett, P. M. Honnell, and F. H Mitchell Mass Production in the Elementary Electronics Laboratory, American Journal of Physics 16 (4) 224-230 (1948). Bartlett: United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, on leave of absence from Bowdoin College. Honnell: At publication at Washington University in St. Louis. Mitchell: At publication at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.