- 1925
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota
- 1933
- M.S., Physics, Iowa State College
- 1936
- Ph.D., Physics, Iowa State College -
The Effect of a Gas Film on Metal Surfaces Used for Electron Recording
Positions
- 1937 - 1940
- Assistant Professor of Physics, Lewis Institute
- 1940 - 1943
- Assistant Professor of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
- 1943 - 1959
- Associate Professor of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Biography
M. Alden Countryman joined Lewis institute as an Assistant Professor of Physics
in 1936 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1943. He retired in
1959.
Throughout his career at IIT, Countryman was active in outreach activities,
establishing a program called "science-at-your-door" in which he
traveled to venues around the Chicago area in order to take the mystery out
of science. This involved short talks and as well as demostrations.[1]
Countryman operated an unofficial weather station on campus during World War
II and helped develop the Illinois Tech Signal Corps program.[2]
Publications
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"The Construction and Use of a Pfund Parallel Plate Refractometer",
M.A. Countryman and W. Kunerth, Journal of the Optical Society
of America 24, 25 (1934).
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"The Effect of a Gas Film on Metal Surfaces used for Electron Recording",
M.A. Countryman Ph.D. Dissertation, Iowa State College (1936).
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"Notes on the Wetting of Filaments by Molten Metals", M.A. Countryman,
Journal of Applied Physics 8, 832 (1937).
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Exploring the Mysteries of Physics and Chemistry, M. Alden
Countryman (University of Knowledge, Chicago, IL 1938).
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"Electric Shock Therapy in the Treatment of Schizophrenia, Manic
Depressive Psychoses and Chronic Alcoholism", C.A. Neymann, V.G. Urse,
J.J. Madden and M.A. Countryman, Journal of Nervous & Mental
Disease 98, 618 (1943).
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"Terminal Velocity in Viscosity Measurements", M.A. Countryman,
American Journal of Physics 14, 61 (1946).
References
- [1] IIT Press Release 841-19, IIT Archives (1941).
- [2] IIT News, June 1943.