Robert Pound
- Born: May 16, 1919 (Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada)
- Died: April 12, 2010 (Belmont, Massachusetts)
Education
- 1941: BA, University of Buffalo
Major Positions
- 1941–1942: Submarine Signal Company, Research Physicist
- 1942–1946: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Researcher
- 1945–1948: Harvard University, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows
- 1948–1968: Harvard University, Assistant Professor to Professor of Physics
- 1968–1989: Harvard University, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics
- 1989–2010: Harvard University, Mallinckrodt Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1951–1951: Oxford University, Fulbright Scholar, Clarendon Laboratory
- 1968–1972: Harvard University, Chair, Department of Physics
- 1973–1973: Collège de France, Visiting Professor
- 1979–1980: University of Colorado, Boulder, Visiting Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)
- 1980–1980: Oxford University, Visiting Fellow, Merton College
- 1982–1982: University of Groningen, Visiting Zernike Professor
- 1986–1987: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Visiting Senior Scientist
- 1987–1987: University of Florida, Visiting Professor
Selected Awards and Honors
Oral History Interviews
- 1991: Available Online
- 2003: Available Online
- 2006-07: Available Online
Published Resources
Nicolaas Bloembergen, "Robert Vivian Pound: 1919-2010", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Robert V. Pound, "Weighing Photons, I," Physics in Perspective 2 (2000): 224-268
Robert V. Pound, "Weighing Photons, II," Physics in Perspective 3 (2001): 4-51
Ursula Pavlish, "Robert Vivian Pound and the Discovery of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Condensed Matter," Physics in Perspective 12 (2010): 180-189
