Earle K. Plyler

Earle Keith Plyler ( born April 26, 1897 in Greenville, South Carolina, USA, † June 8, 1976 in Tallahassee, Florida, United States) was an American physicist and important pioneer of infrared spectroscopy and molecular spectroscopy. He is the namesake of the Earle K. Plyler Prize of the American Physical Society.

Life

Plyler was born in Greenville, South Carolina, where he attended Furman University with a BA (1917 ) and M. A. (1918 ) took off in physics. After scientific work at Johns Hopkins University, he received his doctoral degree in 1924 at Columbia University.

Plyler taught and researched from 1924 to 1941 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1941, he moved to the University of Michigan, where he worked until 1945.

After several years at the National Bureau of Standards in 1962 he received an appointment at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Services

Earle Plyler was an important pioneer of molecular spectroscopy with infrared spectroscopic methods. In memory of him, the American Physical Society regularly gives the " Earle K. Plyler Prize " for outstanding contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy.