David M. Dennison

David M. Dennison di rumahnya di Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1969

David Mathias Dennison (1900 di Oberlin, Ohio – 3 April 1976) adalah seorang fisikawan Amerika yang membuat jasa-jasanya pada bidang mekanika kuantum, spektroskopi dan struktur fisika molekular.

Pendidikan

Pada 1917, Dennison masuk Swarthmore College, dimana ia lulus pada 1921. Ia kemudian masuk ke Universitas Michigan, di Ann Arbor, untuk pembelajaran kelulusan dalam bidang fisika dengan Walter F. Colby dan Oskar Klein.

Sastra Pilihan

• David M. Dennison The Molecular Structure and Infra-Red Spectrum of Methane, The Astrophysical Journal 62 84 (1925)
• David M. Dennison The Rotation of Molecules, Phys. Rev. 28 (2) 318–333 (1926). Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, Denmark, Received 27 April 1926.
• David M. Dennison A Note on the Specific Heat of the Hydrogen Molecule Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character Vol. 115, No. 771 pp. 483–486 (1927). Communicated by R. H. Fowler; received 3 June 1927.
• David M. Dennison The Infrared Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules Part I, Rev. Mod. Phys. 3 (2) 280–345 (1931). University of Michigan.
• David M. Dennison The Infra-Red Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules. Part II, Rev. Mod. Phys. 12 (3) 175–214 (1940). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• David M. Dennison, Recollections of Physics and of Physicists During the 1920s, Am. J. Phys. 42 1051–1056 (1974)

Referensi

• Kragh, Helge Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, fifth printing and first paperback printing, 2002) ISBN 0-691-01206-7
• Max Jammer The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics (McGraw-Hill, 1966)

Pranala luar

• Oral History interview transcript with David Dennison 27, 28 & 30 January 1964, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Diarsipkan 2015-01-12 di Wayback Machine.
• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir