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William Frederick Meggers (July 13, 1888 –

November 19, 1966) was an American physicist specialising in spectroscopy. Born in Clintonville, Wisconsin,

he had to combine his early schooling with working on the family farm, but

earned a scholarship to Ripon College, receiving a

bachelor's degree in physics in 1910 and working as a research assistant. After

a few years at the Carnegie Institute of

Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University)

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

in 1914 he joined the National

Bureau of Standards, and while working there earned his PhD

from Johns Hopkins University. His

work credited to have sparked interest in the field in the United States,

leading to him being dubbed the Dean of American spectroscopists.

In 1947 he received the Frederic Ives Medal. He

was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal in

1953. Since 1970, the Optical Society of America has

awarded the William F. Meggers Award for

outstanding work in spectroscopy. In 1965, Dr. Meggers and his wife, Edith R.

Meggers, donated their coin and stamp collections to the American Institute of

Physics, for the express purpose of establishing a biennial award

program for the improvement of physics teaching at the high school level. Awards

have been presented since 1994. The Meggers crater on the Moon is

named in his honor. His daughter and oldest child was Betty J. Meggers, who also received her doctorate and became a

noted archeologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, specializing in South American pre-Columbian

archeology. He also had two sons, William F. Meggers Jr. (1924-2000) and John

C. Meggers (1928-1966). There are two awards named in his honor: The Optical Society's William F. Meggers Award and

the Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award. 

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