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Clark W. Chamberlain

DEC 01, 1948
Physics Today

Clark W. Chamberlain, who had been professor of physics at Colby College, Vassar College, Denison University (where he was president for fourteen years), and most recently Michigan State College, died October 13, in his seventy‐eighth year. His chief scientific interest was in the field of interferometry.

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