Curriculum Vitae
STUART B. CRAMPTON
Address:Department of Physics, Williams College
33 Lab Campus Drive
Williamstown, Massachusetts 0l267-2565
(413) 597 2247; fax (413) 597 4116; scrampto@williams.edu
Education:B.A., Williams College, 1958
B.A., Hon., Oxford University, 1960
M.A., Harvard University, 1961
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1964
M.A., Oxford University, 1965
Research Interests: Precision measurements of atomic properties at microwave and optical frequencies, atomic
clocks, relationship of science to religion
Honors, Fellowships,Prizes, and Awards:Graduation with highest honors, Magna Cum Laude, 1958; Carroll A. Wilson Fellowship for Study at Oxford, 1958-60; National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 1960-61, and Cooperative Pre-Doctoral Fellow, 1962-63; National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1964-65; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, 1966-68; NATO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, 1975; NSF Faculty Professional Development Award, 1977-78; American Physical Society Prize for Research at an Undergraduate Institution, 1989; Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Course Competition Award, 2002; American Scientific Affiliation Lecture Series Grant, 2003; Metanexus Institute Local Societies Grant, 2005-8,
Teaching Experience:Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant, Williams College, 1956-58; Teaching Fellow in the Natural Sciences, Harvard University, 1963; Part-time Instructor in quantum mechanics and elementary physics,Harvard University, 1964-65; Assistant Professor of Physics, Williams College, 1965-70; Associate Professor of Physics, Williams College, 1970-75; Visiting Associate Professor, MIT, 1974-75; Professor of Physics, Williams College, 1975-79; Barclay Jermain Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1979-2002; Professeur Associe , École Normale Supérieure, 1982-83; Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts, 1986-87, Barclay Jermain Profesor of Natural Philosophy, Emeritus, 2002-present.
Courses:I have taught almost all our undergraduate physics major courses and their laboratory components. I have also taught courses about time and quantum mechanics for non-majors, three January mini-courses about science and religion for both majors and non-majors, most recently, a regular semester general course in science and religion. In 2007 I taught a course in science and religion for the Berkshire Institute for Lifetime Learning (Now the Osher Institute).
Administration:Williams College: Department Chair, 1970-80; Coordinator, Bronfman Science Center and Chair, Science Executive Committee, 1984-86; Acting Department Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1987-88; Chair, Science Executive Committee, 1987-90; Director, Bronfman Science Center, Williams College, 1988-90; Provost,Williams
College, 1995-1999.
Research Support:Research Corporation, 1966-67, 1971-75 and 1988-89; National Science Foundation, 1966-99; National Bureau of Standards Precision Measurements Grants, 1972-75; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1976-79; Office of Naval Research, 1979-85; NASA JPL, 1979-81 and 1988-89; AFOSR, 1990-93.
Teaching Support:NSF ILI Program, "Instrumentation for Precision Time Transfer in Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Laboratories", $32,690 (matched with an equal amount by Williams College) 1988-90. Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences course development award, American Scientific Affiliation Lecture Series Grant, 2003.
Professional Experience: Summer Research Student, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1958; Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Hydrogen Maser Laboratory at HarvardUniversity, 1961-65; Research Associate while on leave at Harvard, 1968-69; visitor at MIT, Harvard and the University of Paris, 1974-75; Visiting Scientist, MIT, 1977-79; Chercheur Associe´ , C.N.R.S., École Normale Supérieure (Paris), 1982-83; Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, 1990-91; Visiting Scholar, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA, fall 1999.
Professional Societies: Fellow of the American Physical Society, Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and the
Council on Undergraduate Research.
Professional Service: Member of NSF panel to select graduate fellows in physics, 1978 and 1979; Reviewer for Physical Review A, Physical Review Letters,American Journal of Physics, and the NSF, 1977-present; Consultant, Hughes Research Labs, 1978-80; Member of the Research Corporation Grants Advisory Committee, 1980-87; Member of Fellowship Committee of the Division of Electron and Atomic Physics of the American Physical Society, 1981-83; Hamilton College Physics Department Visiting Committee, 1983; Member of the panel to review the first year of the
NSF Research in Undergraduate Institutions program, 1984; Councilor, The Council on Undergraduate Research - Physics, 1985-1993; Associate Editor for Physics, Council on Undergraduate Research Newsletter, 1984-8; Vice Chair, Council on Undergraduate Research, 1988-89; Chair, Council on Undergraduate Research, 1989-90; President, Council on Undergraduate Research, 1990-91; Past President, Council on Undergraduate Research, 1991-92; Member, Committee to award the American Physical Society Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution, 1985, 1986 and 1990; Wellesley College Physics Department Visiting Committee, 1986; Consultant, Scientific Equipment Program,
Sherman-Fairchild Foundation, 1986-present; Member, Board of Directors, New England Consortium for Science Education (NECUSE), 1988-91, and Member, NECUSE Executive Committee, 1989-90; Member, Middle States Association reaccreditation panel to visit Bryn Mawr College, 1988; Councilor-at-Large, American Physical Society, 1989-93, and Member, Executive Committee, 1990, and Executive Board, 1991 and 1992; APS Council Liaison to the American Physical Society Education Committee and member, COE subcommittee on Academic Recognition of Teaching; APS Council Liaison to the APS Committee on Minorities, 1989, and Member, 1990-92; Member, APS Budget Committee, Apker Award Committee and the Lilienfeld Prize Committee (Chair, 1991), 1989-91; Member, APS Committee on Committees, 1991 and Chair, 1992; APS Council Liaison to the Precision Measurements Topical Group Executive Committee, 1990-92; Member, APS Forum on Education Executive Committee, 1992-93; Member, APS Selection Committee for the Visiting Minority Lectureship Program; Member, AIP Education Committee, 1993; National Research Council Board of Assessment of Physics Programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1993-1999; National Research Council Committee on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science (CAMOS), 1995-1998; Department Evaluation Visit, Physics Department, St. Michael's College, January 2000; Consultant, Five Foundations (Research Corporation, Dreyfus, Keck, Murdock & Welch) Academic Excellence project and conference for
liberal arts college presidents at Fermi Lab, June 2001; Consultant, Sherman Fairchild Foundation Scientific Equipment Program, 1986-2006; Consultant, Murdock Trust, 2004-present; Director, The Research Corporation, 1989-present; Chair, Board of Directors, The Research Corporation, 2003-4 and 2006-7.
Ten most significant publications:
1. Hyperfine Separation of Ground State Atomic Hydrogen, with D. Kleppner and N.F. Ramsey, Phys. Rev. Letters 11, 338 (1963).
2. Hydrogen Maser Principles and Techniques, with D. Kleppner, H.C. Berg,, N. F. Ramsey, R.F.C. Vessot, H. E. Peters and J. Vanier, Phys. Rev. 138, A972 (1965).
3. Hyperfine Separation of Deuterium, with H.G. Robinson, D. Kleppner and N. F. Ramsey, Phys, Rev. 141, 55 (1966).
4. Spin-Exchange Shifts in the Hydrogen Maser, Phys. Rev. 158, 57 (1967).5. Frequency Shifts Due to Hydrogen-Hydrogen Spin Exchange Collisions, with J.A. Duvivier*, G. S. Read* and E. R. Williams**, Phys. Rev. A5, 1752 (1972).
6. Duration of Hydrogen-Atom Spin-Exchange Collisions, with H.T.M. Wang**, Phys. Rev. A12, 1305 (1975).
7. Hyperfine Resonance of Gaseous Atomic Hydrogen at 4.2 K, with T.J. Greytak, D. Kleppner, W.D. Phillips, D.A. Smith and A. Weinrib, Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 1039 (1979).
8. Temperature Dependence of Hydrogen Atom Adsorption of Molecular Hydrogen Surfaces, with J. J. Krupczak* and S.P. Souza, Phys. Rev. B25, 4383 (1982).
9. Spin Rotation Effects and Spin Waves in Gaseous 3He , with P.J. Nacher, G. Tastevin, M. Leduc and F. Laloe¨ , J. Physique Lett. 45, L-441 (1984).
10. Spin-exchange Frequency Shifts in Cryogenic and Room-temperature Hydrogen Masers, with J.M.V.A. Koelman, H.T.C. Stoof, O.J. Luiten, and B.J. Verhaar, Phys. Rev. A38,
3535 (1988).
* Williams College undergraduate student
** Williams College Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Associate