William Duane (physicist)

Biography

Studies

• 1888-1892 University of Pennsylvania
• 1892-1895 Harvard University
• 1895 Universities of Göttingen
• 1895-1897 Berlin

Academic career

• 1898-1907 professor at the University of Colorado Boulder
• 1908-1913 at the laboratory of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris
• 1913-1917 assistant professor of physics at Harvard University
• 1917-1934 professor of biophysics at Harvard University

  Research activities

• Radioactivity
• X-ray spectroscopy, Duane-Hunt law, relating the minimum wavelength of X-rays to the threshold voltage of the cathode rays that excite them; and Duane's hypothesis of quantized translative momentum transfer.

  Death

Honours and awards

Selected publications