Obituaries
Science Journal, Fall 1997 -- Vol 15, No. 1
Ernest H. Coleman, '27 B.S. PM, died at his home on April 26,
1997. A graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Coleman was a physician
in private practice in State College, Pennsylvania, until 1942. He then
worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Altoona from 1946 to
1971, and at Penn State from 1971 to 1975.
Howard W. (Jake) Jacobson, '53 Ph.D. Chem, died on April 25,
1997, in Wilmington, Delaware. He was employed by E. I. duPont Nemours
& Company since 1955, and was named a duPont Fellow in 1989. In 1992
he was named duPont Fellow-Distinguished Scientist, the first individual
at DuPont to achieve this level. The holder of 38 U.S. patents in various
chemical areas, Dr. Jacobson was honored with the Penn State Alumni Fellow
Award in 1995.
Jeffrey S. Lannin, 57, of State College, died Wednesday, September
10, 1997, at home. He had been a Penn State faculty member in the Department
of Physics since 1976. He was born on August 21, 1940, in Brooklyn, New
York, a son of the late Sidney and Ann Schieber Lannin. On April 4, 1971,
he married Delores "Duffie" Slawinski, who survives at home. Lannin was
a 1962 graduate of Purdue University with a bachelor of science degree.
He received a master's of science degree from the University of Illinois
in 1964 and a doctorate in materials science from Stanford University in
1971. From 1967 to 1968 he was a physicist at Lockheed Research Laboratory
in Palo Alto, California; from 1971 to 1974 he worked at the Max Planck
Institute in Stuttgart, Germany; from 1974 to 1975 he worked at the Argonne
National Laboratory in Illinois; from 1975 to 1976 he was a visiting professor
at the University of Delaware. He joined Penn State as an assistant professor
in 1976 and had been a professor of physics since 1986. He wrote numerous
articles in professional journals and chapters in books on his research
in condensed-matter physics. In 1996 he was elected a fellow of the American
Physical Society based on his pioneering contributions to the understanding
of the structure and dynamics of liquids, amorphous solids, and fullerenes,
as deduced from Raman and neutron scattering methods. He was a member of
the American Vacuum Society and the Materials Research Society.
Arthur C. Manning, '31 M.S. Chem, died on November 24, 1996.
A resident of Montclair, New Jersey, he was a management consultant with
Arthur Manning Associates.
Joseph B. Morris, '56 Ph.D. Chem, died in December, 1996. He
was professor emeritus of chemistry at Howard University, after serving
there for more than 36 years and retiring in 1991. His positions also included
chairman of the chemistry department for 10 years, elected member of the
Board of Trustees, and assistant to the vice president for academic affairs
and associate dean of educational affairs in the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences.
Langhorne H. Brickwedde, retired assistant professor of physics,
died on April 16, 1997, in State College, Pennsylvania. She earned a bachelor's
degree in chemistry in 1929 and a master's degree in physics in 1930, both
at the University of Georgia. She taught physics at George Washington University,
conducted research at the National Bureau of Standards, and was a chemist
at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. In 1963, she began teaching physics
at Penn State, becoming a faculty member in the Department of Physics in
1964. She retired from Penn State in 1974 but continued to teach courses
for a number of years. The Langhorne H. Brickwedde Recognition Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Physics was established in her honor in 1985.
In addition, she and her husband, the late Ferdinand G. Brickwedde, former
Penn State dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics and Evan Pugh Professor
of Physics, established the Ferdinand and Langhorne Brickwedde Research
Fund for Junior Faculty in physics at Penn State in 1985.
Warren W. Miller, Penn State professor emeritus of chemistry,
died on April 29, 1997, in State College, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor
of science degree at Ohio State University in 1941 and his doctorate at
the University of California at Berkeley in 1944. He was a specialist in
nuclear chemistry and radiochemistry and conducted research on instrumental
methods, activation analysis, and nuclear-recoil effects. He joined the
Penn State faculty as an associate professor of chemistry in 1950, retiring
in 1977. While at Penn State, he developed instructional laboratory methods
and procedures in radiochemistry and was the author of a laboratory manual
for Penn State's radiochemistry course.
Ernest C. Pollard, a Penn State Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus, died on February 24, 1997, in Jupiter, Florida. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate education at Cambridge University, earning a doctorate in nuclear physics in 1932. He was a faculty member at Yale University prior to joining the Penn State faculty in 1960 as chairman of the Biophysics Department. After his retirement from Penn State in 1971, he was a research scholar at the University of Florida, Duke University, and the National Institutes of Environmental Health in North Carolina. He began his research and teaching career in nuclear physics and made some of the first determinations of the radius of the nucleus. He made significant contributions to the development of radar and studied the effects of ionizing radiation on proteins, nucleic acids, viruses, and bacteria. His research led to a more quantitative understanding of how a variety of radiations cause damage and how organisms repair that damage. While at Yale University, he was responsible for the construction of one of the first cyclotrons to produce a beam of radiation. He established the Ernest C. Pollard Professorship in Biotechnology at Penn State in 1990.