In the photo to the right, GJW is standing in the Shielded Neutron Source target area of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory.  This setup was used for taking neutron-deuteron analyzing power data at 19 MeV and (with slight modifications) at 21.0 and 22.5 MeV.  GJW is also a member of PSA's Microwave Sintering Group.  Click here for information about this. Click here to go the PSA Physics web page.

                         

We need an educational system that challenges our brightest students to realize their potential; otherwise, we will no longer be a superpower.  But we also need to ensure a high-quality education for every child.  Even though many of them won't become inventors or theorists or seminal thinkers, they will be competent in the basics and they will know how and where to find the information they need.  Mastering the basics seems like a modest aspiration, but it is crucial.  Without a competent workforce, the new ideas and technological breakthroughs will languish -- or be taken up in some other country, one with a competent, well-educated labor force.                                                                         -- Bill Bradley, The New American Story

 

education Ph.D., Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, August, 2001.  Dissertation title: "Containing Plasma Physics: A Disciplinary History, 1950-1980." Ph.D., Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, May, 1992. Dissertation  title: "Analyzing-Power Measurements for Neutron Scattering from 1H and 209Bi." M.A., Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, December, 1987 B.S., Department of Physics, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, May, 1978

classes Physics 001H - Physics in Historical Perspective          (Syllabus in PDF) Physics 211 - Mechanics                                                (Syllabus in PDF) Physics 212 - Electricity and Magnetism                       (Syllabus in PDF) Physics 213 - Fluids, Waves, and Thermal Physics        (Syllabus in PDF) Physics 214 - Optics and Modern Physics                     (Syllabus in PDF) Physics 237 - Modern Physics                                       (Syllabus in PDF) Physics 400 - Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism  (Syllabus in PDF) Physics 419 (Math 419) - Theoretical Mechanics          (Syllabus in PDF) History 122 (STS122) - History of Science I                 (Syllabus in PDF) History 123 (STS123) - History of Science II                (Syllabus in PDF) History 428 (STS428) - The Darwinian Revolution      (Syllabus in PDF) Science 400 - Consequences of Science                        (Syllabus in PDF)

curriculum vitae GJW's Curriculum Vitae in html

research interests Nuclear physics   n-d analyzing power at 19 MeV (G.J. Weisel, PI) n-d analyzing power at 22.5 MeV (G.J. Weisel, PI)    Description in PDF n-p analyzing power                                                  Description in PDF n-3He analyzing power photodisintegration of d and 3He nuclear optical model Microwave heating and sintering of powdered metals (D.T. Zimmerman, PI) History of modern physics   research with undergraduate students Click here for information about collaborative research done by GJW with undergraduate students. Click here for information about PSA's Microwave Sintering Group.

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Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory	PSA Microwave Sintering Group
Duke University Free Electron Laser Laboratory	Student research with GJW
National Nuclear Data Center
Materials Research Institute
Penn State Altoona Physics Department	History of Science Society
Penn State Altoona Honors Program	American Physical Society
Penn State Altoona Science Club