Jerrold Zacharias
- Born: January 23, 1905 (Jacksonville, Florida)
- Died: July 16, 1986 (Belmont, Massachusetts)
Education
- 1926: AB, Columbia University
- 1932: PhD, Columbia University (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1929–1930: City College of New York, Tutor in Physics
- 1931–1936: Hunter College, Instructor
- 1936–1940: Hunter College, Assistant Professor
- 1941–1945: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Staff Member
- 1945–1945: Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory, Leader, Engineering Division
- 1946–1966: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Physics
- 1966–1970: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute Professor
- 1970–1986: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emeritus Institute Professor
Other Positions
- 1946–1956: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director, Laboratory for Nuclear Science
- 1968–1972: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director, Educational Research Center
- 1957–1958: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), Member
- 1961–1964: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), Member
Selected Part-Time Positions
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute Archives and Special Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Published Resources
Norman F. Ramsey, "Jerrold R. Zacharias: 1905-1986", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Jack S. Goldstein, A Different Sort of Time: The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist, Engineer, Educator (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992)
John E. Rudolph, Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
