Earle Hesse Kennard

Earle Hesse Kennard ( born August 2, 1885 in Columbus ( Ohio), † January 31, 1968 in Claremont ( California)) was an American theoretical physicist. He was a professor at Cornell University.

Kennard studied at Pomona College (BA 1907) and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (BS 1911). In 1913 he was at Cornell University doctorate ( Ph.D. ), where he remained from 1914 to 1916 as an instructor at the University of Minnesota except for a short period and in 1926 professor of physics was what he remained until 1946. In 1926, he was in a sabbatical year at the University of Göttingen, where he met the just created quantum mechanics by Werner Heisenberg and Pascual Jordan. Also Kennard himself wrote at this time a number of important papers on quantum mechanics, among other things, to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

He was from 1941 Advisor of the Research Institute, David Taylor Model Basin ( DTMB ) of the U.S. Navy, where he headed from 1946 to 1949, the Laboratory of Hydromechanics and 1950 and 1957 for structural mechanics. 1957 until his retirement in 1960 he was scientific adviser to the director and also worked thereafter as a consultant on a contract basis. He dealt with hydrodynamics and vibration of ships and underwater explosions.

He oversaw the reissues of the Physics textbook by FK Richtmyer ( 3rd edition 1942 to 5th edition 1955).

Writings

• Kinetic Theory of Gases, McGraw Hill 1938
• With Floyd Karker Richtmyer, JN Cooper Introduction to modern Physics, 6th Edition, McGraw Hill, 1969 ( first of Richtmyer 1928 from 1934 was Kennard co-author )