William Frederick Meggers

William Frederick Meggers ( born July 13, 1888 in Wisconsin, † 1966) was an American physicist who specialized in the field of spectroscopy.

He had during his school years on the family farm cooperate, but soon received a scholarship to Ripon College. In 1910 he earned the degree of Bachelor of Science in Physics and worked as a research assistant. After a few years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, he joined in 1914 the National Bureau of Standards a. While working there he received a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University.

His work in the field of chemical spectroscopy be made generally responsible for a rise in interest in this area of ​​research within the U.S. and earned him the title Dean of American spectroscopes.

Since 1970, the William F. Meggers Award is the Optical Society of America for outstanding achievements in the field of spectroscopy.

The crater Meggers on Earth's Moon was named after him.

• Physicist ( 20th century)
• Americans
• Born in 1888
• Died in 1966
• Man