Edith Halbert

Edith Conrad Halbert
Edith Conrad Halbert
Born	April 23, 1931; New York City, NY
Died	December 31, 2023 (aged 92); Oak Ridge, TN
Alma mater	Cornell University; University of Rochester;
Spouse	Melvyn Halbert (m. 1951)
Children	3
	Scientific career
Institutions	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Thesis	A shell model for the even-parity states of N¹⁵ and general results for states of parity ( - )A̳¹ in the nuclei 5 ≤A ≤ 16 (1957)
Doctoral advisor	James Bruce French

Edith Conrad Halbert (23 April 1931 – 31 December 2023)^[1] was an American physicist, elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1972.^[2] She worked on computations in the nuclear shell model at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Education

Halbert attended Cornell University,^[3] where she was elected to Sigma Xi^[4] and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1951.^[5] She then went to the University of Rochester to pursue graduate studies in physics. At Rochester, she was the student of James Bruce French.^[6] She earned a doctorate in 1957^[7] with a PhD thesis entitled A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15.^[8]

Career

She worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory,^[9] where she directed the development of the Oak Ridge–Rochester Multi-Shell Program, a computer program used to compute the properties of atomic nuclei based on the nuclear shell model.^[10] While at Oak Ridge, she also worked as a visiting scientist in the low energy nuclear theory group at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the nuclear theory group at Stony Brook University.^[11]

Personal life

Halbert came from a Forest Hills, New York family. She married Melvyn Halbert of Jamaica, New York, also a Cornell and University of Rochester physics student^[12]^[13] and later an Oak Ridge researcher.

Selected publications

Zucker, A.; Howard, F. T.; Halbert, E. C., eds. (1961). Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei, May 2–4, 1960, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. New York & London: John Wiley & Sons.^[14]^[15]
Halbert, E. C. (January 1964). "Optical-model analysis of elastic deuteron scattering". Nuclear Physics. 50: 353–402. Bibcode:1964NucPh..50..353H. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(64)90216-0.
Austern, N.; Drisko, R. M.; Halbert, E. C.; Satchler, G. R. (1964-01-13). "Theory of finite-range distorted-waves calculations". Physical Review. 133 (1B): B3 – B16. Bibcode:1964PhRv..133....3A. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.133.B3. ISSN 0031-899X.
McGrory, J. B.; Wildenthal, B. H.; Halbert, E. C. (1970-07-01). "Shell-model structure of ⁴²⁻⁵⁰Ca". Physical Review C. 2 (1): 186–212. Bibcode:1970PhRvC...2..186M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.2.186. ISSN 0556-2813.
Ichimura, Munetake; Arima, Akito; Halbert, E. C.; Terasawa, Tokuo (April 1973). "Alpha-particle spectroscopic amplitudes and the SU(3) model". Nuclear Physics A. 204 (2): 225–278. Bibcode:1973NuPhA.204..225I. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(73)90272-8. OSTI 4564483.

References

^ "Edith Conrad Halbert". Retrieved 26 March 2024.
^ "Fellows nominated in 1972 by the Division of Nuclear Physics". APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 2021-01-09. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
^ "The Cornell Daily Sun 30 October 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
^ "Sigma Xi Elects". Cornell Alumni News. Vol. 54, no. 1. July 1951. p. 15. hdl:1813/27580.
^ "The Cornell Daily Sun 8 June 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
^ Koltun, Daniel S. (September 2002). "James Bruce French". Physics Today. 55 (9): 77–79. Bibcode:2002PhT....55i..77K. doi:10.1063/1.1522227. ISSN 0031-9228.
^ "Degrees Awarded at UR's Commencement". Democrat and Chronicle. 1957-06-10. p. 16. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
^ Halbert, Edith C. (1957). A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15 (PhD thesis). University of Rochester. Bibcode:1957PhDT........21H.
^ "We Hear That". Physics Today. 17 (4): 98–100. April 1964. Bibcode:1964PhT....17d..98.. doi:10.1063/1.3051583. ISSN 0031-9228.
^ "Nuclear Physics Research: Little Things Mean a Lot". Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review. 25 (3–4): 156–160. 1992.
^ Obenshain, F. E. (May 1972). "Domestic assignments and leaves of absence". Physics Division Annual Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 1971. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. p. 180. doi:10.2172/4921301. OSTI 4921301.
^ "Cross Sections, Department Of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Winter 2002" (PDF).
^ "The Cornell Daily Sun 17 January 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
^ "Books received". Science Progress. 49 (195): 587–600. July 1961. JSTOR 43425322.
^ Wigner, E. P. (2001). "Review of the Second Gatlinburg Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei". In Mehra, Jagdish (ed.). Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 261–269. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-07791-7_40.

[1] "Edith Conrad Halbert". Retrieved 26 March 2024.

[aps-2] "Fellows nominated in 1972 by the Division of Nuclear Physics". APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 2021-01-09. Retrieved 2020-08-26.

[3] "The Cornell Daily Sun 30 October 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-26.

[4] "Sigma Xi Elects". Cornell Alumni News. Vol. 54, no. 1. July 1951. p. 15. hdl:1813/27580.

[5] "The Cornell Daily Sun 8 June 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-26.

[6] Koltun, Daniel S. (September 2002). "James Bruce French". Physics Today. 55 (9): 77–79. Bibcode:2002PhT....55i..77K. doi:10.1063/1.1522227. ISSN 0031-9228.

[7] "Degrees Awarded at UR's Commencement". Democrat and Chronicle. 1957-06-10. p. 16. Retrieved 2020-08-26.

[8] Halbert, Edith C. (1957). A Shell Model for the Even-Parity States of Nitrogen-15 (PhD thesis). University of Rochester. Bibcode:1957PhDT........21H.

[9] "We Hear That". Physics Today. 17 (4): 98–100. April 1964. Bibcode:1964PhT....17d..98.. doi:10.1063/1.3051583. ISSN 0031-9228.

[10] "Nuclear Physics Research: Little Things Mean a Lot". Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review. 25 (3–4): 156–160. 1992.

[11] Obenshain, F. E. (May 1972). "Domestic assignments and leaves of absence". Physics Division Annual Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 1971. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. p. 180. doi:10.2172/4921301. OSTI 4921301.

[12] "Cross Sections, Department Of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Winter 2002" (PDF).

[13] "The Cornell Daily Sun 17 January 1951". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-21.

[14] "Books received". Science Progress. 49 (195): 587–600. July 1961. JSTOR 43425322.

[15] Wigner, E. P. (2001). "Review of the Second Gatlinburg Conference on Reactions Between Complex Nuclei". In Mehra, Jagdish (ed.). Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 261–269. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-07791-7_40.

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