2 Harvard Physicists Given Higgins Chairs

Two of Harvard's leading scientists, Norman F. Ramsey, an experimental physicist, and Julian S. Schwinger, a theoretical physicist, will become Higgins Professors of Physics on July 1.

Ramsey participated in the discovery, some years ago, that the heavy hydrogen nucleus is egg-shaped rather than spherical. More recently, with other Harvard scientists, he has been working to determine the distribution of electrical charges within the proton. In 1960, his laboratory built the first atomic hydrogen maser, which could become the most accurate atomic clock in the world.

Schwinger received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 for his work in reconstructing the equations of quantum merchants which govern the behavior of electrons and electromagnetic radiation.