Hillard Bell Huntington

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1910 –

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Who is Hillard Bell Huntington?

Dr. Hillard Bell Huntington was a physicist who first proposed, in 1935, that hydrogen could occur in a metallic state. He is also known for his work on the electromigration of atoms, which later became an important consideration in semiconductor electronics.

Huntington was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University. He taught at Culver Military Academy, the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in St. Louis. During World War II Huntington worked at the Radiation Lab at MIT.

Huntington joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1946. He served as chair of the physics department at RPI from 1961-1968. He was known as a specialist in diffusion and conduction processes in metals. He was also an accomplished painter. Some of his paintings can be found on display in the Hillard B. Huntington library, named in his honor, located in the Jonsson-Rowland Science center at RPI. RPI also established the Hillard B. Huntington Award for graduate students in his honor.

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Born
Dec 21, 1910
Education
  • Princeton University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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