| Show LEON B. LINFORD Professor and Head of the department of Physics Head Died Monday Leon B. professor and head of the Department of Physics at the University of died early Monday morning in a Salt Lake City He had been head of the Department of Physics since Linford was born July 1904 in He received his and M.A. degrees from the Utah State Agricultural College in 1923 and and his Ph.D. in irom me University of He is survived by his Imogene Kesler of 1584 Glen Salt Lake and two Lawrence L. and Rulon In Linford served on an mission in Germany for three He traveled extensively in Europe and the United From 1930 to Linford was a National Research Fellow at Princeton University in the physics In he was a member of the United States Commission 3 of the International Scientific Radio Linford served as consultant to the Control Systems Laboratory of the University of Illinois in He was chairman of the mathematics and astronomy sections of the Utah Academy of and He also served as chairman of the upper air research program at the University of Utah for the United States Air From 1941 to Dr Linford worked in the radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in radar Also in he was a consulting physicist for the naval research laboratory in Funeral arrangements for Linford are being made and will be announced at a later |
