Donald Kerst
- Born: November 1, 1911 (Galena, Illinois)
- Died: August 19, 1993 (Madison, Wisconsin)
Education
- 1934: BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1937: PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1937–1938: General Electric X-Ray Corporation, X-ray tube developer
- 1938–1957: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Instructor to Professor of Physics
- 1957–1962: General Atomics, Researcher, John Jay Hopkins Laboratory for Pure and Applied Science
- 1962–1980: University of Wisconsin, Madison, E. M. Terry Professor of Physics
- 1980–1993: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1940–1941: General Electric Company, Physicist, Research Laboratory
- 1943–1945: Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, Physicist and Group Leader
- 1953–1957: Midwestern University Research Association, Technical Director
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1951: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1984: American Physical Society, James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics
- 1988: American Physical Society, Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators
Archival Resources
University of Illinois Archives, Urbana, Illinois
Online Finding Aid
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Steenbock Library, University Archives, Madison, Wisconsin
Published Resources
Andrew M. Sessler and Keith R. Symon, "Donald William Kerst: 1911-1993", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Donald Kerst, "Accelerators and the Midwestern Universities Research Association in the 1950s," in Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, ed. Laurie M. Brown, Max Dresden, and Lillian Hoddeson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 1989), 202-212
