Dr. Joseph Melvin Reynolds was an internationally renowned physicist and Boyd Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University. He was survived by his wife Ruth Anna Heise Reynolds. He was the son of Frances Shelby Reynolds and Rev. James Jennings Reynolds of Montgomery County, TN. He received his Master's degree from Vanderbilt Univeristy in 1947 where he was a Sheffield-Loomis fellow in physics. He received his doctoral degree from Yale in 1950. He went to LSU in the same year and established the low temperature physics laboratory there. His many experiments in this field led to the development of the low-frequency wave-detector, the first one of which was built at LSU. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to study abroad at the University of Leide in Holland. In 1962, the became the head of the department of astronomy and physics and was named to the rank of Boyd Professor, LSU's highest professional position. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to the board of the National Science Foundation. He specialized in solid-state physics, cryogenics, magnetic resonance phenomena, superconductivity, superfluidity, fluid dynamics and transport phenomena. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, NASA Space Science and Earth Science Advisory Board and the National Science Foundation Board. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, Sheffield-Loomis Fellow, Fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the AAAS. Cause of death: Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Joseph Melvin Reynolds was an internationally renowned physicist and Boyd Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University. He was survived by his wife Ruth Anna Heise Reynolds. He was the son of Frances Shelby Reynolds and Rev. James Jennings Reynolds of Montgomery County, TN. He received his Master's degree from Vanderbilt Univeristy in 1947 where he was a Sheffield-Loomis fellow in physics. He received his doctoral degree from Yale in 1950. He went to LSU in the same year and established the low temperature physics laboratory there. His many experiments in this field led to the development of the low-frequency wave-detector, the first one of which was built at LSU. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to study abroad at the University of Leide in Holland. In 1962, the became the head of the department of astronomy and physics and was named to the rank of Boyd Professor, LSU's highest professional position. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him to the board of the National Science Foundation. He specialized in solid-state physics, cryogenics, magnetic resonance phenomena, superconductivity, superfluidity, fluid dynamics and transport phenomena. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, NASA Space Science and Earth Science Advisory Board and the National Science Foundation Board. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, Sheffield-Loomis Fellow, Fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the AAAS. Cause of death: Alzheimer's disease.
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