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THE Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers has been awarded to Prof. Duane Roller, professor and head of the Department of Physics of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. The award is made annually “for notable contributions to the teaching of physics”. Through the American Journal of Physics, which he has edited since it was founded in 1933, Prof. Roller had made a notable contribution to the teaching of physics at the college and university levels. Prof. Roller was educated at Culver Military Academy and at the University of Oklahoma. He was later, for thirteen years, on the staff of the University of Oklahoma, during which period he received a doctorate at the California Institute of Technology. Afterwards he became a research associate at Columbia and an associate professor at Hunter College. During the First World War he was a pilot, and during the Second World War he was chief technical aide of the National Defense Research Committee. The formal award will be made at.the annual meeting on January 31 of the American Association of Physics Teachers, to be held at Columbia University. In his address of acceptance Prof. Roller will discuss one of his chief professional interests, physical terminology, another field in which he has made notable contributions, both to the teaching of physics and to the science itself.
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American Association of Physics Teachers : Award of Oersted Medal. Nature 159, 54 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159054c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159054c0