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Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, and a leader in General Education here will give his last lecture in Natural Sciences 2 this morning in Burr at 9 p.m.
Kemble is retiring this year after 38 years of teaching here. He was eligible for retirement in 1955 but at the request of President Pusey, he continued teaching for two more years. Kemble will remain at the University after his retirement, as director of the University's share in the Academic Year Institute.
One of the foremost teachers of theoretical physics in the country, Kemble was one of the first American scientists to contribute to the development of the quantum theory of physics. He published a book in 1938 on the subject of quantum mechanics.
During the war, Kemble worked on the Underwater Sound Project here and also provided instruction in physics for students in Army and Navy programs at the University. In the later years of the war, Kemble was a member of the Alsos expedition, traveling to Germany before the actual Nazi surrender, in order to find out what progress the Germans had made in developing nuclear weapons.
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