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- Title
Walter R. Johnson: Personal recollections and his early work.
- Authors
Wilkerson, T. D.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the life and works of Walter R. Johnson. It mentions that Johnson was a generous teacher of Applied Mathematics and later accepted a research position with Professor Otto Laporte. It notes that Laporte's laboratory carried out a long series of spectroscopy experiments using shock tubes essentially as light sources for critical astrophysical data. It highlights the Symposium on Atomic Physics: A tribute to Walter Johnson at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana on April 4-5, 2008.
- Subjects
INDIANA; JOHNSON, Walter R.; COLLEGE teachers; MATHEMATICIANS; MANAGEMENT science; LAPORTE, Otto; UNIVERSITY of Notre Dame
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Physics, 2009, Vol 87, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0008-4204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/P08-129