131,790 research outputs found
Letter, Douglas Fairbanks to John Lesslie Hall, 23 June 1942
No full textLetter, 23 June 1942, of Lt. Douglas Fairbanks to Captain John Lesslie Hall, Jr. Concerns Fairbanks' service since he last talked with Hall. From Mss. 78 H14, folder 1, box 21, series 1, Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr. Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Letter, Douglas Fairbanks to John Lesslie Hall, 8 February 1945
No full textLetter, 8 February 1945, of Lt. Douglas Fairbanks to Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr. Concerns Fairbanks' current duties in Norfolk, Virginia. From Mss. 78 H14, folder 1, box 2, series 1, Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr. Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Letter, Douglas Fairbanks to John Lesslie Hall, 4 January 1945
No full textLetter, 4 January 1945, from Lt. Douglas Fairbanks to Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr. Includes Fairbanks' congratulations at Hall's promotion and a summary of some of the missions upon which Fairbanks had been sent. From Mss. 78 H14, folder 1, box 2, series 1, Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr. Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Letter from Katharine Hall to John Sloan, April 17, 1932
No full text1 leaf (single sided)Letter from Katharine Hall to John Sloan, April 17, 193
Correspondence Robert C. Giffen to John L. Hall, 1942
No full textPapers, 1937-1973, of Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr. of Williamsburg and Alexandria, Va. and while stationed at Pearl Harbor, San Francisco and Norfolk, Va. The papers are both personal and professional. The collection contains material concerning World War II Operations TORCH (North Africa), BIGOT-HUSKY, AVALANCHE (Salerno), NEPTUNE-OVERLORD, and as well as the Army-Navy joint agreement on Normandy. Also includes material pertaining to his work with the USO, the Naval War College, Army War College and Armed Forces Staff College as well as speeches, newspaper clippings, photographs and pamphlets. While the majority of the correspondence is with his wife and with his brother Channing M. Hall, there is correspondence with prominent individuals: Omar Bradley, Arleigh Burke, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ernest Joseph King, George C. Marshall, Chester W. Nimitz, George S. Patton, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and other high-ranking military and civilian figures.
Additions (2000.8A) to the collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, as well as photographs of a Swem Library exhibit relating to the papers and memorabilia of Admiral Hall and (2007.84) research papers, memoirs, interviews, and correspondence of and with Hall by one of his biographers, Susan H. Godson, which was used by Godson for compiling "Viking of Assault: Admiral John Lesslie Hall, Jr., and Amphibious Warfare" (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982).
Humorous certificate, "Imperium Neptuni Regis" signed by Commander J.L. Hall, Jr. , U.S. Navy, dated December 13, 1934. Filed in first box of oversize.
Letter from Press Secretary James Hagerty to Lesslie Hall, dated 1955, attached to April 20, 1953 letter from Dwight Eisenhower to Lessie Hall. Box 5, Folder 5, 1953 correspondence
Heritage Society (Houston)
No full textTranscript of Letter from John Hall & Co. to William M. Rice discussing an invoice
Letter to Samuel Street from John Hall
No full textLetter to Samuel Street from John Hall, dated at Norwich, 24 February 1837,
concerning a land sale
John L. Hall
No full textJOHN L. HALL
Inducted: 2005
Citation:
For his distinguished work in in optical and laser physics, including advances in precision spectroscopy that were recognized by the award of the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics.
Tenure: 1961-2004
B: 1934, Denver, Colorado
Education:
Carnegie Institute of Technology, BS (Physics), 1956
Carnegie Institute of Technology, MS (Physics), 1958
Carnegie-Mellon University, PhD (Physics), 1961
Positions held:
Physicist, 1961-1978, Senior Scientist, 1979 - 2004
Senior NBS/NIST Fellow 1988 & Fellow of JILA, 1964-present
Honors:
More than 20 awards including
Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 (joint with T. Hänsch and R. Glauber)
U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medals (1969, 1974, 2001)
NBS Stratton Award (1971); NBS Condon Award (1979); NIST Astin Award (2000)
OSA Townes Award (1984) (joint with V. P. Chebotayev); OSA Ives Medal (1991); Born Award (2002)
APS Davisson-Germer Prize (1988); APS/DLS Schawlow Prize (1993)
Presidential Rank Award (1980, 2002); IEEE Rabi Award, IEEE (2004)
Republic of France Légion d'Honneur (2004)
Memberships:
American Physical Society (Fellow)
Fellow, Optical Society of America (Fellow)
Delegate, Consultative Committee for the Definition of the Meter (BIPM) Sèvres, France, 1970-2004
National Academy of Sciences, 1984-present
International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
Publications:
More than 235 publications and ten patents, including:
K. M. Evenson, J. S. Wells, F. R. Peterson, B. L. Danielson, G. W. Day, R. L. Barger, and J L. Hall, “Speed of light from direct frequency and wavelength measurements of the methane-stabilized laser,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 29, 1346-1349 (1972)
J. L. Hall, C. J. Bordé and K. Uehara, “Direct optical resolution of the recoil effect using saturated absorption spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 1339-1342 (1976)
J. L. Hall and D. Hils, “Improved Kennedy-Thorndike Experiment to Test Special Relativity,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1697 (1990)
David J. Jones, Scott A. Diddams, Jinendra K. Ranka, Andrew Stentz, Robert S. Windeler, John L. Hall, Steven T. Cundiff, “Carrier-Envelope Phase Control of Femtosecond Mode-Locked Lasers and Direct Optical Frequency Synthesis,” Science, 288 635 (2000).
John L. Hall, Jun Ye, Scott A. Diddams, Long-Sheng Ma, Steven T. Cundiff, and David J. Jones, “The four Laser Ultras: a New Alliance for Physics and Metrology,” IEEE J. of Quantum Electron. 37, 1482-1492 (2001).
Mark Notcutt, Longsheng Ma, Jun Ye, and John L. Hall, “Simple and compact 1-Hz laser system via improved mounting configuration of a reference cavity,” Opt. Lett.30, 1815 (2005
Payment to John Hall for services rendered
No full textThomas Rotch paid John Hall for unspecified services rendered thirty eight dollars and seventy five cents in woolen cloth on October 24th 1820. 4" X 7'6
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