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Edith Conrad Halbert (23 April 1931 – 31 December 2023) was an American physicist, elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972. She worked on computations in the nuclear shell model at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Education

Halbert attended Cornell University, where she was elected to Sigma Xi and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1951. She then went to the University of Rochester to pursue graduate studies in physics. At Rochester, she was the student of James Bruce French. She earned a doctorate in 1957 with a PhD thesis entitled A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15.

Career

She worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she directed the development of the Oak Ridge–Rochester Multi-Shell Program, a computer program used to compute the properties of atomic nuclei based on the nuclear shell model. While at Oak Ridge, she also worked as a visiting scientist in the low energy nuclear theory group at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the nuclear theory group at Stony Brook University.

Personal life

Halbert came from a Forest Hills, New York family. She married Melvyn Halbert of Jamaica, New York, also a Cornell and University of Rochester physics student and later an Oak Ridge researcher.

Selected publications

• Zucker, A.; Howard, F. T.; Halbert, E. C., eds. (1961). Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei, May 2–4, 1960, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. New York & London: John Wiley & Sons.
• Halbert, E. C. (January 1964). "Optical-model analysis of elastic deuteron scattering". Nuclear Physics. 50: 353–402. Bibcode:1964NucPh..50..353H. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(64)90216-0.
• Austern, N.; Drisko, R. M.; Halbert, E. C.; Satchler, G. R. (1964-01-13). "Theory of finite-range distorted-waves calculations". Physical Review. 133 (1B): B3 – B16. Bibcode:1964PhRv..133....3A. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.133.B3. ISSN 0031-899X.
• McGrory, J. B.; Wildenthal, B. H.; Halbert, E. C. (1970-07-01). "Shell-model structure of Ca". Physical Review C. 2 (1): 186–212. Bibcode:1970PhRvC...2..186M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.2.186. ISSN 0556-2813.
• Ichimura, Munetake; Arima, Akito; Halbert, E. C.; Terasawa, Tokuo (April 1973). "Alpha-particle spectroscopic amplitudes and the SU(3) model". Nuclear Physics A. 204 (2): 225–278. Bibcode:1973NuPhA.204..225I. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(73)90272-8. OSTI 4564483.

References

1. "Edith Conrad Halbert". Retrieved 26 March 2024.
2. "Fellows nominated in 1972 by the Division of Nuclear Physics". APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 2021-01-09. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
3. "The Cornell Daily Sun 30 October 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
4. "Sigma Xi Elects". Cornell Alumni News. Vol. 54, no. 1. July 1951. p. 15. hdl:1813/27580.
5. "The Cornell Daily Sun 8 June 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
6. Koltun, Daniel S. (September 2002). "James Bruce French". Physics Today. 55 (9): 77–79. Bibcode:2002PhT....55i..77K. doi:10.1063/1.1522227. ISSN 0031-9228.
7. "Degrees Awarded at UR's Commencement". Democrat and Chronicle. 1957-06-10. p. 16. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
8. Halbert, Edith C. (1957). A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15 (PhD thesis). University of Rochester. Bibcode:1957PhDT........21H.
9. "We Hear That". Physics Today. 17 (4): 98–100. April 1964. Bibcode:1964PhT....17d..98.. doi:10.1063/1.3051583. ISSN 0031-9228.
10. "Nuclear Physics Research: Little Things Mean a Lot". Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review. 25 (3–4): 156–160. 1992.
11. Obenshain, F. E. (May 1972). "Domestic assignments and leaves of absence". Physics Division Annual Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 1971. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. p. 180. doi:10.2172/4921301. OSTI 4921301.
12. "Cross Sections, Department Of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Winter 2002" (PDF).
13. "The Cornell Daily Sun 17 January 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
14. "Books received". Science Progress. 49 (195): 587–600. July 1961. JSTOR 43425322.
15. Wigner, E. P. (2001). "Review of the Second Gatlinburg Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei". In Mehra, Jagdish (ed.). Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 261–269. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-07791-7_40.

• American physicists
• American women physicists
• American nuclear physicists
• Cornell University alumni
• University of Rochester alumni
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory people
• Fellows of the American Physical Society
• 21st-century American women
• 1931 births
• 2023 deaths