About James M. Cork
Lived 1894 – 1957 (aged 62–63). James M. Cork was a physicist, university teacher and nuclear physicist.
James Murle Cork (July 9, 1894, Yale, Michigan – November 27, 1957, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American physicist, known for his research in nuclear physics and nuclear spectroscopy.
Biography He graduated in 1911 from Yale High School in Yale, Michigan. At the University of Michigan, he graduated in 1916 with a B.S., in 1917 with an M.S., and in 1922 with a Ph.D. From 1917 to 1918 he was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He was from 1917 to 1919 an assistant physicist at the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. and from 1919 to 1920 an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State College.
Cork was elected in 1928 a fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1940 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He married Laurie Mae Kaufmann in 1918. They had two children.
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2nd edition, 1950
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Who was James M. Cork?
American physicist
When was James M. Cork born?
James M. Cork was born in 1894.
When did James M. Cork die?
James M. Cork died in 1957.
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James M. Cork was a physicist, university teacher and nuclear physicist.
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