Henry M. Foley

Henry Michael Foley ( born June 1, 1917 in Palmer, Massachusetts, † 1982 ) was an American physicist.

Foley attended the University of Michigan, where he 1939 a bachelor's degree made ​​in 1939 for his Masters degree in 1942 and his doctorate. 1942 to 1944 he was a scientist at the Office of Scientific Research and Development and 1944/45, at the Laboratory of Applied Physics at the Johns Hopkins University. From 1946 he was at Columbia University, where he was an Assistant Professor in 1948 and Professor in 1954. 1957 to 1960 and 1971 to 1973, he was standing there in front of the physics faculty.

In 1948 he determined with Polycarp Kusch the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron. The exact value was an important test for the at that time developing quantum electrodynamics.

He was a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group.