J. William Buchta

(1895-1966) born at Osceola, Polk County, lived in Lincoln. Physicist, educator, administrator, editor, contributed broadly to the improvement of physics teaching on the national level, was instrumental in establishing the prototype of the National Science Foundation summer institutes for high school and college teachers of science, initiated the visiting scientist program sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, recipient of Oerstad Medal in 1957, served in various editorial capacities for The Physical Review and for Reviews of Modern Physics from 1931 to 1957, was founding editor of The Physics Teacher in 1962. Consult American Journal of Physics (September 1958) 350-351 and Physics Today obituary, December 1966, p. 99 and The Physics Teacher (April 1973) 197-206.

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