Engineering Department Names Four Gordon McKay Professors

Four younger scientists will become assistant professors of Engineering and Applied Physics on the Gordon McKay Endowment effective this July.

John H. Van Vleck, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, announced the appointment of Peter Calingaert, Harvey P. Greenspan, Richard V. Jones, and Anthony G. Oettinger '51.

Oettinger, a native of Nuremberg, Germany, has combined linguistics and applied mathematics in pioneer research at the Computation Laboratory on the problem of machine translation of scientific Russian.

Jones has worked in both electronics and solid state physics. Senior Engineer at the Shockley Laboratory until recently, he has done research in transistor design, semiconductor crystal technology and paramagnetic and diamagnetic resonance in gas plasmas.

Greenspan is an applied mathematician whose work on surface wave theory and other aspects of hydrodynamics is of value to oceanographers.

Calingaert, whose electrical research at the Computation Laboratory has centered on switching circuits, is now taking part in the programming of research problems for use in the new Univac large scale computer