William Ernest Bennett - IIT Faculty Biography

William Ernest Bennett (1907 - 1968)

Education

1934: B.S., Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; M.A., Physics, Queen's University, Kinsgton, Canada
1937: Ph.D., Physics, Cambridge University

Positions

1940 - 1946: Assistant Professor of Physics, The Rice Institute
1946 - 1949: Associate Professor of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
1949 - 1962: Professor of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
1962 - 1968: Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo

Biography

William Bennett graduated with a B.S. and an M.A. from Queen's University in Kinsgston Canada after which he was awarded a prestigous 1851 Research Fellowship to study at Cambridge University. Bennett joined the Rice Institute (now Rice University) where he continued his work on nuclear physics. During World War II Bennett worked at the University of Minnesota and Los Alamos, returning to Rice Institute afterward. In 1946, Bennett joined Illinois Institute of Technology where he continued publishing in the field of nuclear physics using the 1.4MeV Van de Graaff accelerator. He has written extensively in the fields of neutrons, protons and Gamma rays. He was a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association of University Professors and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. Bennett remained at Illinois Institute of Technology until 1962 when he took a position at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Publications

"The Stopping Power of Mica for α-Particles", W.E. Bennett, Proc. Royal Soc. London, Ser. A 155, 419-434 (1936).
"The Internal Conversion Electrons of Actinon", W.E. Bennett, Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 34, 282-289 (1938).
"Gamma-Ray Resonances from the Bombardment of Carbon by Deuterons", W.E. Bennett and T.W. Bonner, Phys. Rev. 58, 183 (1940).
"Gamma-Ray Resonances from the Bombardment of Carbon by Deuterons" W.E. Bennett and T.W. Bonner, Phys. Rev. 58, 183 (1940).
"Resonances in the Emission of Protons from the Reaction C¹²+H²", M.M. Rogers, W.E. Bennett, T.W. Bonner, and E. Hudspeth, Phys. Rev. 58, 186 (1940).
"Protons from C¹³+H²", W.E. Bennett, T.W. Bonner, E. Hudspeth, and B.E. Watt, Phys. Rev. 58, 478 (1940).
"The Disintegration of Carbon by Deuterons", W.E. Bennett, T.W. Bonner, E. Hudspeth, H.T. Richards, and B.E. Watt, Phys. Rev. 59, 781 (1941).
"The Energy of the γ-Rays from the Disintegration of Fluorine by Protons and Deuterons", W.E. Bennett, T.W. Bonner, and B.E. Watt, Phys. Rev. 59, 793 (1941).
"High Energy Gamma-Ray from Li+D", W.E. Bennett, T.W. Bonner, H.T. Richards, and B.E. Watt, Phys. Rev. 59, 904 (1941).
"The Yield Function and Angular Distribution of the D+D Neutrons", W.E. Bennett, C.E. Mandeville, and H.T. Richards, Phys. Rev. 69, 418 (1946).
"The Neutron-Proton and Neutron-Carbon Scattering Cross Sections for Fast Neutrons", C.L. Bailey, W.E. Bennett, T. Bergstralth, R.G. Nuckolls, H.T. Richards, and J.H. Williams, Phys. Rev. 70, 583 (1946)
"Resonances in the Disintegration of Fluorine by Protons", W.E. Bennett, T.W. Bonner, C.E. Mandeville, and B.E. Watt, Phys. Rev. 70, 882 (1946).
"The Total Scattering Cross Sections of Deuterium and Oxygen for Fast Neutrons", R.G. Nuckolls, C.L. Bailey, W.E. Bennett, T. Bergstralh, H.T. Richards, and J.H. Williams, Phys. Rev. 70, 805 (1946).
"The Disintegration of Li⁷ by Deuterons", W.E. Bennett, T.W. Bonner, H.T. Richards, and B.E. Watt, Phys. Rev. 71, 11 (1947).
"Neutrons From C¹²+D", W.E. Bennett and H.T. Richards, Phys. Rev. 71, 565 (1947).
"Neutron Groups from Be⁹(α,n)C¹²", C.E. Bradford and W.E. Bennett, Phys. Rev. 78, 302 (1950).
"Simple Capture of Alpha-Particles", W.E. Bennett, P.A. Roys, and B.J. Toppel, Phys. Rev. 82, 20 (1951).

Books

P.L. Copeland and W.E. Bennett, Elements Of Modern Physics: A Course in Those Aspects of Modern Physics that Underlie Important Engineering Developments (Oxford University Press, New York 1961).