Physics & Astronomy Alumni
Here is a list of some of our Alumni. It's in alphabetical order. If you would like to be included in this list please fill out the form located here.
- B.S. University of Alabama, 1975
- M.S. Florida State U. 1978,
- Ph.D. Florida State U. 1983
Now an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.
e-mail:rclark@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
February, 1996
D. Wayne Cooke
- Ph.D. Physics, Alabama, 1977
- MS, Western Kentucky, 1970
- BS, Western Kentucky, 1969
- Research: Optical properties of materials; use of muons as a probe of magnetism and superconductivity; radiation damage in solids.
- Work Address:
- Technical Staff Member
- Materials Science and Technology Division
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- MST-4, MS E546
- Los Alamos, NM 87545
- Voice: 505-667-4274
- FAX: 505-665-5849
- e-mail: Cooke@mst.lanl.gov
- Materials Science and Technology Division
- Home Address:
- 5 Dandelion Circle
- Santa Fe, NM 87501-8519
- Voice: 505-983-3486
- Santa Fe, NM 87501-8519
Married to Alice A. Wright (J.D. Univ. of Alabama, 1977)
October, 1995
Joe Fikes
- MS, Physics, University of Alabama, 1970
- BS, Physics, University of Alabama, 1968
Currently at Dynetics, Inc., Huntsville Alabama working in radar and radar technology.
- Work Address:
- Dynetics, Inc.
- 1000 Explorer Blvd.
- Huntsville, AL 35806
- Voice: 205-922-9230
- FAX: 205-922-9255
- E-Mail: fikes@dynetics.com
- 1000 Explorer Blvd.
- Home Address:
- 6817 Criner Rd.
- Huntsville, AL 35802
- Voice: 205-883-5281
- E-Mail: jfikes@ro.com
- Huntsville, AL 35802
Married to Judi (BS, Gordon College 1968), with two sons: Bill Fikes and Josh Hosman.
October, 1995
Michael I. Green
- B.S. 1954, U. of Alabama
- Ph.D. Wayne State Unversity 1972
- Address:
- 117 Rheem Boulevard
- Orinda, CA 94563-3620
- e-mail: mighty@lbl.gov
- Orinda, CA 94563-3620
Note that I was studying Aeronautical Engineering at Alabama from 48 to 51. I spent 51-52 in D.C. working as a technician at the National Bureau of Standards Radiation Lab. I switched to physics in 1952. I was very active with the Black Friars theater group at Alabama and received the Univeristy Best Actor Award in 1954, the year I graduated.
I got myself drafted shortly after graduating from Alabama and spent two years in the Chemical Corps, mostly at Dugway Proving Grounds where I directed the first theatrical production at the base. I was nominated for best Actor at the Canadian Dominion Drama Festival in 1956 at Edmonton, Canada.
After the Army, I did graduate work in Physics at Columbia University, while also doing Off Broadway acting and Stage Managing. This combination did not work out to well for me. I left NY for Lockheed Research Labs in 58 and did Space Physics for 5 years. I got married and had 2 children. I went to Detroit and spent a year with Bendix Research Labs developing time of flight mass spectrometers. I left Bendix in 64 and entered the physics graduate program at Wayne State University. Received Ph.D. in 72. My thesis was on lifetimes (ns) of excited states of rare earth nuclei. While looking for a job (it wasn't easy back then either) I did some research using the WSU Van de Graff accelerator. After a year and a half of investigating worm sperm among other topics, I was offered jobs at a girls Catholic school in Arizona, an Army depot in Missouri and Lawrence Berkely Laboratory. After a few nanoseconds of hard thought I went to Berkeley. I have been involved in accelerator physics since arriving at Berkeley in 74.
My field of expertise is setting up systems to measure the strength and quality of fields associated with accelerator magnets. Berkeley has loaned me to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble France and I spent two years commutting every other week to the SSCL in Texas. I am on the governing board of the International Magnetic Measurements Workshops.
In 1993, the University of California had a retirment incentive program that I took advantage of. Retired from LBL October 31, 1993. Started working for SLAC at Stanford University Nov 1, 1993. Helped hire a new group leader for magnetic measurements and got the group going again. Finished up at Stanford in May 94 and was rehired by LBNL in November 94 on a part time basis which I am still doing. Am working on the B-factory to be built at SLAC and the Large Hadron Collider to be built at CERN.
When not doing physics I fly my ASW-20 sailplane as much as possible. I love to fly cross country (flew 2970 miles last year) and competition. Among soaring pilots in the United States and elsewhere I am know as "mighty gorilla".
Life has been pretty damn good.
January, 1996
- received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics, summa cum laude, from the University of Alabama in 1981, and Masters and Doctorate degrees in Astronomy from the University of Texas in Austin in 1985 and 1988, respectively.
- His background includes work in radio and optical astronomy, the design of optical instrumentation, machine vision, and robotics. He is currently the group leader for the Intelligent Mechanisms Group at the NASA Ames Research Center.
- His research interests include planetary robotics, instrumentation for space astronomy, image processing, machine vision, and real-time high performance computing architectures. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE, the Optical Society of America, and the International Society for Optical Engineering. He is a commercial pilot with an instrument rating, and his hobbies include flying, scuba diving, and video production.
- Butler Hine
- Intelligent Mechanisms Group
- NASA Ames Research Center
- Mail Stop 269-3
- Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
- Email: hine@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
- Office: (415) 604-4379
- Fax: (415) 604-4036
- Intelligent Mechanisms Group
October, 1995
Muhammad Azadul Islam
6 Poplar Street
Potsdam, NY 13676
- EDUCATION :
- Ph.D. Columbia University, 1981
- M.S. University of Alabama, 1977
- B.Sc. Honors, Dhaka University, Bangladesh 1974
- M.S. University of Alabama, 1977
- Associate Professor Department of Physics, S.U.N.Y. Potsdam 1989-
- Assistant Professor San Diego State University, 1983-85
- Post doctoral research fellow, JILA, Boulder, University of Colorado 1981-83
- Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University, 1977-81
- Teaching Assistant, University of Alabama, 1975-77
Research Interest: Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Faraday effect.
Other Interest: Intellectual history of the Islamic Civilization.
My wife is a full time homemaker. We have two boys, Crescent and Cosmo.
March, 1996
M. Shah Jahan, Ph. D., Alabama, 1977
- Professor and Graduate Coordinator
- Department of Physics
- The University of Memphis
- Memphis, TN 38152
- Phone: 901-678-3115, FAX: 901-678-4733
- Home phone: 901-753-6750
- email: JAHANMS@MSUVX1.MEMPHIS.EDU
- Department of Physics
Research Field: Radiation Effects in Biomaterials as Investigated by using Solid State Spectroscopy.
Our son, Ashif and daughter, Shampa are now married and are out of home. Ashif, an architect lives with his wife in Memphis and Shampa, B. S. in Biology from the U of M, lives with her husband (resident M. D.) in Staten Island, NY. Shefali and I are home alone!!!!!
My resaerch work is going fine, keeping me very busy.
February, 1996
Mohammad A. Karim
- Address:
- 8710 Castlecreek Drive
- Centerville, Ohio 45458
- mkarim@pcmail.engr.udayton.edu
- Centerville, Ohio 45458
- Year of graduation:
- 1978 (MS in Physics)
- Degrees:
- MS in Physics, UA, 1978
- MS in EE, UA, 1979
- Ph.D. in EE, UA, 1982
- MS in EE, UA, 1979
- Position:
- Chair, Electrical Engineering Department
- Director, Electro-Optics Program
- Professor, Electrical Engineering & Electro-Optics
- UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON, Ohio.
- Director, Electro-Optics Program
- News:
- Having a real ball!
- Married and have three great kids!
- Initiated a doctoral program in electro-optics;
- Just designed a BS in Computer Engineering degree program (expected to start in Fall 1996);
- Authored three graduate text books;
- Authored/coauthored over 110 journal papers and over 125 conference papers;
- Edited a reference book;
- Served on two journal editorial boards;
- Edited five journal special issues, etc...
- Married and have three great kids!
January, 1996
Wayne Alan Keen
- Ph.D. Physics, Alabama 1988
- M.S. Physics, Alabama 1984
- Research: Magnetic resonance
- Address:
- 3705 Princess Street
- Huntsville, Alabama, 35810
- E-mail: dockeen@aol.com
- Huntsville, Alabama, 35810
- Family:
- Married 3.7 years: Wife Linda Lou, One Foster Child - Timmey
- Employment:
- Immediately after graduation I was employed as a solid state physicist with a company developing new infrared detector materials. I am currently employed by as both an optical systems engineer and a missile software engineer.
October, 1995
Dr. Robert Lingle, Jr.
- B.S. Physics, Alabama, 1986
- M.S. Physics, LSU, 1988
- Ph.D. Physics, LSU, 1991
- Dissertation: Picosecond Pump-Probe Raman Spectroscopy of Excited States and Relaxation Phenomena in the Condensed Phase.
- Address:
- c/o Prof. C. B. Harris
- Department of Chemistry
- University of California
- lingle@xenon.cchem.berkeley.edu
- (510) 642-6389 (W)
- (510) 704-0648 (H)
- Department of Chemistry
1992-present: postdoctoral scientist at UC-Berkeley, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Professor Charles B. Harris.
Research: femtosecond two-photon photoemission spectroscopy of ultrathin dielectric layers on metal substrates, emphasizing electron tunneling and localization phenomena in 2-D systems.
wife: Betty Huang Lingle
- Ph.D. in Physics, Florida State University, 1996.
- M.S. in Physics, Florida State University, 1994.
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B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics, University of Alabama, 1990.
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Address:
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e-mail:Howard_Richards@tamu-commerce.edu
Department of Physics
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429-3011 (USA)
Born: May 16, 1969, Port St. Joe, Florida, USA.
Ronald (Ronnie) (Ron) B. Sartain,
BS 1972
- Present Postal address:
- Ronnie Sartain
- 1446 Davidson Loop
- Oakman, AL 35579
- 1446 Davidson Loop
- Company:
- H-Bar Enterprises
- 1442 Davidson Loop
- Oakman, AL 35579
- 205-622-2494 / 2444 voice
- 205-622-3040 fax
- E-Mail: Ronnie@hbar.com
- 1442 Davidson Loop
20 + years in aerospace: including Northrop Services (2 years), US Army Missile Command (4 years) and Martin Marietta Orland Florida (15 years).
A large majority of the Aerospace experience was in Electro Optics, from the visible to the Millimeter wave. The last six years were in Image and Signal Processing. In 1992, I left Aerospace to start my own company using this pattern recognition experience. Three years later we were the first company to place a full library (word for word copies of books with a powerful search engine) on the Internet and make it available to the public on a Subscription basis. Try our Online Library located at
http://www.hbar.com
In addition to the Electronic Publishing, we also offer a full line of hardware, software, and data transmittion lines. Everything required to provide Internet Access to your community. I'm the guy that puts your local Internet Access Provider into business.
March, 1996
James Zandy
Williams, Jr.
- Attended UA: 1981 to 1985
- B.S. Physics, May 1985
- Work Address:
- J. Zandy Williams, Ph.D.
- E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research
- Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7623
- 4555 Overlook Avenue SW
- Washington, DC 20375
- (202)767-5789
- e-mail: williams@uap.nrl.navy.mil
- E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research
- Home Address:
- 6885 Chasewood Circle
- Centrville, VA 22020
I am married (Tracy) and have a 6 month old son. Zachary Williams was born on 5/6/1995.
I received my Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Duke University in June of 1992. My dissertation title is "The Radiative Capture of Polarized Deuterons by 6Li and the D-state of 8Be".
After receiving my Ph.D., I took a postdoctoral position with the University of Colorado. While at CU, I worked on the Neutral Meson Spectrometer at LAMPF, completed the design of the Cherenkov Counter for the Short Orbit Spectrometer in Hall C at CEBAF, and participated in the HERMES collaboration.
In November 1993, I was awarded an Office of Naval Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Naval Research Laboratory. At NRL, I am conducting research of the Earth's upper atmosphere, specifically the physics of the thermosphere and ionosphere. I also participated in the refurbishing, calibration, and launching of the High Resolution Airglow / Aurora Spectrometer (HIRAAS) sounding rocket experiment into a diffuse, proton aurora from the Poker Flat, Alaska research range. I am assisting in the calibration data acquisition and testing of the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imagers (SSULI) which will fly aboard Defense Meteorological Space Program (DMSP) satellites and observe the Earth's airglow in the far- and extreme-ultraviolet. Another of my projects is to analyze ultraviolet limb images of NO delta band layers in the southern hemisphere nightglow obtained during the NASA STS-39 shuttle mission using two far-ultraviolet cameras of the AFP-675 payload.
November, 1995
William
Theron Yates
- Home:
- 1911 Arlene Avenue
- Oxnard, CA 93030-2704
- (805) 485-3199
- wtyates@aol.com
- wtyates@vcnet.com
- Oxnard, CA 93030-2704
- Work:
- William T. Yates
- Radar Reflectivity Laboratory
- Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
- Code 471430E
- Point Mugu, CA 93042-5001
- (805) 989-9360
- yatesb@mugu.navy.mil
- Radar Reflectivity Laboratory
- School:
- B.S. Physics, Alabama 1965.
- Graduate study in Astronomy, University of Arizona, 1965-6.
- Graduate study in Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara,1977-80.
- Graduate study in Astronomy, University of Arizona, 1965-6.
Employed by the then Naval Missile Center, Point Mugu, CA, June, 1967.
- Personal:
- Married Cherry Ann Klock, August 30,1966, Tucson, AZ.
- Children:
- Mary Venice, January 1, 1968. Married Steven Hamric, July 3,
1995.
- Robert Theron, June 30, 1970. Employed by PageNet.
I have worked for the Radar Reflectivity Laboratory since 1958, first doing computer programming, implementing the first data processing and display software for the Lab. Lately, I have been doing more planning, contract monitoring, and admin functions. The RRL operates three microwave anechoic chambers for the measurement of radar signatures. The largest chamber, the Bistatic Anechoic Chamber, 150'Wx150'Lx60'H, has a compact range reflector for far-field measurements from 0.1-100 GHz, and does near-field bistatic measurements in both horizontal and vertical planes.
I am an elder in the First Baptist Church of Oxnard. I write poetry and moderate the Christian Writer's Workshop on America On-Line.
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the U of A! Roll Tide!
