Homer L. Dodge

Homer L. Dodge

Homer Levi Dodge was the Chair of the Department of Physics, Dean of the Graduate school, and founder of the Oklahoma Research Institute, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.

In 1919 Dodge became chairman of the Physics Department at the University of Oklahoma, and in 1926 he became dean of the graduate school.

He was president of the Board of Trustees for the School of Religion from 1927 to 1944.

At the December 1930 meeting of the American Physical Society, Dodge helped to organize the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).

He was elected the first President, of the AAPT.

In 1941, he organized the Oklahoma Research Institute and became its first director.

From 1942 to 1944, he took a leave of absence from the University of Oklahoma to serve as director of the Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Research Council.

Sources

* [http://www.nhn.ou.edu/HomerDodge.pdf Homer L Dodge biography] at the University of Oklahoma


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