Some Important Contributions:
Experimental measurements of photon cross-sections on nuclei, and
the extraction of electromagnetic
moments of nuclear states.
Some Important Publications:
"Nuclear Elastic Scattering of Photons," Phys. Rev. 101:692 (1956), with E.G. Fuller.
"Photonuclear Reactions," National Bureau of Standards Monograph 118, issued August 1970.
"Nuclear Photon Scattering by 12C and 16O," Phys. Rev.C 28:8
(1983), with W.R. Dodge, R.G. Leicht, M. McCord,and R. Starr.
Honors:
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Department of Commerce Silver Medal 1958
Guggenheim Fellow 1961-1962
Sir Thomas Lyle Fellow 1969
Department of Commerce Gold Medal 1971
Federal Women's Award 1975
Stratton Award 1980
National Bureau of Standards Fellow 1987 -
Jobs/Positions:
1947-1950 University of California Radiation Laboratory
1950-1990 National Institute of Standards and Technology
(formeraly National Bureau of Standards)
1990-1992 Adjunct Professor of Physics, Duke University
1992- American Ceramics Society
Public Service:
1972-75 General Advisory Committee to the
Atomic Energy Commission, 1974-1975 Acting Chairman.
1982-87 Board of Trustees of the Southeastern Universities Research
Association.
1984-1985 Chairman, Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society
Education:
1942 B.A. Smith College , magna cum laude
1945 M.A. University of California, Berkeley
1947 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Sources:
Evans Hayward, Professor C. W. Wong
Field Editor: C. W. Wong/ Steven A. Moszkowski
<cwong@physics.ucla.edu /stevemos@ucla.edu >
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