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451:. At that time, the winter semester of 1927, Sommerfeld, in his special lectures, treated the theory of electrons in metals for the first time. As a course of study, Sommerfeld suggested to Houston that he investigate the mean free path of electrons and its relationship to resistance in metals as a function of temperature. Sommerfeld showed Houston the proof of a paper soon be published on the subject of Fermi statistics applied to phenomena in metals. Houston's and Eckart's works on the subject were published in the papers following Sommerfeld's article. After spending the winter semester of 1927 with Sommerfeld, Houston went to spend the spring semester of 1928 with Heisenberg in Leipzig. There, he studied the spin-orbit interaction in two-electron spectra. Houston was able to show the transition from 556:, regarding integration of the university, explicitly forbidden by the university’s original charter. This debate included letters from the executive secretary of the Houston branch of the NAACP, civil rights advocate James Dombrowski of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and segregationist Gov. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. After watching several months of back and forth, under pressure from Rice's board of trustees, Houston sent a note to the Thresher pointing out that this debate was “academic” because of the language of the founding charter. Rice remained segregated until a changed board filed suit to break the racial exclusion in the charter and Black students were admitted in 1963. 549:, where he served as president and professor until 1961. He resigned as president after a serious illness in 1961, but continued his teaching responsibilities. In 1951, Houston published a textbook "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" which was widely used for teaching quantum mechanics courses. As president, Houston brought many advancements to the university, including enlargement of the graduate school, a five-year engineering program, lowering of the student-teacher ratio to 10:1, and fostering a closer relationship between the students and faculty. 402:
who would win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. It was at this time that Houston began his experimental work on the fine structure of hydrogen and was awarded an M.S. in 1922. In 1922, he returned to Ohio
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State, where he was an instructor in physics and studied spectroscopy under A. D. Cole. Houston was granted his Ph.D. in 1925, after which he went to the
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and served as an assistant professor (1927–1929), associate professor (1929–1931), and professor (1931–1946). He again took up his experimental work on
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effect and made the first suggestion and analysis of the use of soft x-rays to investigate the energy bands of solids. At Caltech, and later at
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In 1948 during W. V. Houston’s presidency, a debate raged in the letters page of the campus newspaper, the
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Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Non-relativistic Wave Mechanics with Illustrative Applications
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The structure of the red line of hydrogen and the interpretation of doublets in other elements
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on August 22, 1968. He was survived by his wife, Mildred née White, whom he married in 1924.
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The structure of the red line of hydrogen and the interpretation of doublets in other elements
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resulted in a correction to the accepted value of the e/m ratio, as well as stimulating
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as well as being a teacher and administrator. He became the second president of
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In 1953, Houston wrote a review of Sommerfeld’s first volume of the six-volume
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Sommerfeld, Arnold (1949). "Some Reminiscences of My Teaching Career".
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In 1946, Houston became the second president of Rice Institute (now
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Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century
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and the theory of electrons in atoms and solids. His work on the
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W. V. Houston, "Acceleration of Electrons in a Crystal Lattice",
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to jj-coupling in two-electron systems and its influence on the
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to work up a consistent set of precise atomic constants. In
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W. V. Houston, "The Physical Content of Quantum Mechanics,"
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Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
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W. V. Houston, "Die Elektronenemission kalter Metalle",
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Arnold Sommerfeld, Author and W. V. Houston, Reviewer
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Index

William Vermillion Houston
William Houston (disambiguation)

Rice University
Edgar Odell Lovett
Kenneth Pitzer
Mount Gilead
Ohio
U.S.
Edinburgh
Scotland
Ohio State University
University of Chicago
Physics
California Institute of Technology
Rice University
Thesis
The structure of the red line of hydrogen and the interpretation of doublets in other elements
Doctoral advisor
Albert Michelson
Robert Millikan
Arnold Sommerfeld
Werner Heisenberg
Robert B. Leighton
/ˈhstən/
physicist
spectroscopy
quantum mechanics
solid-state physics
Rice University

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