Dale Raymond Corson (1914 - )

At - 1940 - Dale Raymond Corson (1914 - ) Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1914, Corson received a B.A. degree from the College of Emporia in 1934, his M.A. from the University of Kansas in 1935, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1938. In 1940, while a post-doctoral fellow at Berkeley, he used a particle accelerator to manufacture astatine, the 85th element of the periodic table, not previously found in nature, and is credited as its discoverer. the He was a staff member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory from 1941 to 1943, and later served as a technical advisor at Air Force Headquarters in Washington, D.C. At the end of the war, he joined the staff of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

 
At - 1940 - Dale Raymond Corson (1914 - ) In 1946, Corson came to Cornell University as an assistant professor of physics and helped design the Cornell Synchrotron. He was appointed associate professor of physics in 1947, became a full professor in 1952, was named chairman of the Physics Department in 1956, and became Dean of the College of Engineering in 1959. Corson served as Provost of the University from 1963 to 1969, becoming Cornell's eighth president in 1969, a position he held until 1977.

Dale R. Corson led the university through the final years of the Vietnam War and student activism, and through the economic recession of the 1970s. His role was to return the university to stability: to concentration on research, teaching and scholarship.

Corson brought together the state and endowed components of Cornell, forming one university enjoying public and private support, as envisioned by White and Cornell and articulated by Jacob Gould Schurman. Significant support was provided for the research program at Arecibo, the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory and the Nanofabrication Facility. He revitalized the Department of Geology, expanded the Division of Biological Sciences, and added new programs such as Medieval Studies. The I.M. Pei-designed Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art was completed. He encouraged such multidisciplinary programs as Science, Technology, and Society, the Materials Science Center, environmental programs, radio physics, and space research.

The status of women on campus was greatly improved during the Corson presidency. A Women's Studies Program was formally established in 1972. A Provost's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women was created and presented specific recommendations. The university's policy statement on equal opportunity was changed to include sex among the proscribed criteria with regard to admission to the university. New employment procedures were implemented, and increasing numbers of women were appointed to the faculty and to high administrative positions. He provided support for the Africana Studies and Research Center, which had developed from the black studies movement. Corson recommended the formation of an Affirmative Action Advisory Board to monitor the status of women and minorities and to propose more effective procedures.

Dale R. Corson jako emeritní prezident Cornell Univerzity s Neilem Ashcroftem

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