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Frederick Bedell

JUL 01, 1958
Physics Today

Frederick Bedell, emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University and one of the founding members of the American Physical Society, died on May 3 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 90 years of age. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Prof. Bedell graduated from Yale University and received both his MS and PhD (in physics) from Cornell. He was appointed to the Cornell faculty as an instructor in 1892 and by 1904 had risen to the rank of full professor. He remained a member of the Cornell faculty until his retirement in 1937. Shortly thereafter he moved to Pasadena and continued to be active as a consulting physicist.

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