17 Facts About Carl Eckart

Carl Henry Eckart was an American physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator.

However, due to Arthur Holly Compton, a physics faculty member and later Chancellor, Carl Eckart was influenced to continue his education in physics at Princeton, where he went in 1923 on an Edison Lamp Works Research Fellowship.

Carl Eckart continued this line of work after receipt of his Ph.

In 1927 Carl Eckart received a Guggenheim Fellowship to do postdoctoral study and research with Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, one of the three main centers for the development of quantum mechanics, the others being Gottingen under Born and the University of Copenhagen under Niels Bohr.

Also at Munich simultaneous with Eckart were Rudolf Peierls, and two other Guggenheim Fellows, Edwin C Kemble and William V Houston.

In Munich, Carl Eckart worked on the quantum mechanical behavior of simple oscillators using the Schrodinger equation and on operator calculus related to the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics.

Carl Eckart applied his work to the theory of electrons and the conductivity of metals using Fermi statistics, and he co-authored a paper on the subject with Sommerfeld and William V Houston.

The Theoretical Aspects Subsection, chaired by Enrico Fermi, was located at the University of Chicago, and Carl Eckart was a member of it.

However, in 1941, Carl Eckart withdrew from the Committee because of his anti-atomic bomb sentiments.

Carl Eckart took leave from the University of Chicago to work on the problem, thus beginning his 31-year stay in California.

In 1946, Carl Eckart officially resigned his position at the University of Chicago to become a professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego, a position he held until 1971.

In 1948, the MPL became an integral part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Carl Eckart served as the fourth director of Scripps until 1950.

Carl Eckart contributed to geophysics by linking theoretical hydrodynamic exercises to actual physical properties of water.

From 1965 to 1967, Carl Eckart was vice-chancellor for academic affairs at UCSD.

Carl Eckart then served the University of California, from 1967 to 1968, as alternate representative to the Institute for Defense Analyses, which was made up of 12 member universities and functioned as an independent source for studies and advice for the Department of Defense.

Carl Eckart contributed to the posthumous publication of some works by the mathematician John von Neumann.

Carl Eckart married Edith Louise nee Frazee in 1926; they were divorced in 1948.