Walter D. Knight
Male, Person
1919 –
Who is Walter D. Knight?
Walter D. Knight was an American physicist. Knight was mostly notable for the discovery of Knight shift, the effect that has been given his name. Knight shifts are frequency shifts of the nuclear magnetic resonance in metals. The Los Angeles Times said that Knight "pioneered the use of electric quadrupole resonance and magnetic resonance as sensitive probes in studying structural and other changes in metal crystals". The National Academies Press said that his "name has been immortalized in condensed-matter physics as the discoverer of a nuclear magnetic resonance phenomenon known as the Knight shift." Knight was dean of the College of Letters and Science, Berkeley University's largest college. He was also professor emeritus of physics at University of California, Berkeley, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Other distinctions included two honorary degrees: one from Middlebury College and the other from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and the Berkeley Citation, the highest honor of Berkeley University.
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- Born
- Oct 14, 1919
- Education
- Duke University
- Middlebury College
- Died
- Mar 29, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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