BERNARD VONNEGUT:- May 7, 1997
Deceased Name: BERNARD VONNEGUT
GUILDERLAND -- Bernard Vonnegut, Ph.D. died April 25, 1997. Bernard Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 29, 1914. He attended local public elementary schools, Shortridge High School, and the Park School, from which he graduated in 1932. He continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in chemistry, and received his B.S. in 1936. He entered the graduate School at M.I.T. and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1939. His doctoral thesis involved measurement of the freezing points of dilute aqueous solutions. From 1939 to 1941 he was employed by the Hartford Empire Company to carry out research on the surface properties and breaking stress of glass. He performed this work first at the Preston Laboratories in Butler, Pennsylvania, and later at the Hartford Empire Laboratories in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1941 Vonnegut returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. He worked on aerosol generation and filtration at the chemical Warfare Service Development Laboratories in the Chemical Engineering Department. From 1943 to 1945 in the Meteorology Department he did research on the icing of aircraft, the adhesion of ice, and the properties of supercooled clouds. In 1945 he joined the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. In the chemistry group his research efforts involved the supercooling of liquid tin metal. Later, with Irving Langmuir and Vincent Schaefer, he worked on cloud seeding and other problems related to cloud physics. During this period he found that supercooled clouds could be seeded with silver iodide, and devised techniques for seeding with this material from the ground and from airplanes. In connection with his research in cloud physics at General Electric, Vonnegut devised instruments for specialized measurements, such as the vortex thermometer for measuring true air temperature from an airplane, and an automatic condensation nuceli meter for measuring aerosols. Vonnegut joined Arthur D. Little, Inc., in 1952. Here he proposed an idea to explain thunderstorm electrification based on the transport of space charge in updrafts and downdrafts. He also suggested that thunderstorm electrification may possibly be important in precipitation formation and tornadoes. In association with Charles Moore, he was primarily involved with research into atmospheric electricity and cloud physics. He also was concerned with research on problems of aerosol production and measurement, the miniaturization of electrical recorders, electrostatic hazards in industry, glass fiber formation, and the behavior of evaporating, electrified droplets. In January 1967, Vonnegut joined the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of the State University of New York at Albany as a Senior Research Scientist. Here he continued his research, investigating electrification in thunderstorms, the role of electricity in precipitation formation, and the kinetics of nucleation. Vonnegut also holds the academic rank of Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science where he teaches courses in atmospheric electricity, atmospheric instrumentation and atmospheric chemistry. Vonnegut is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Meteorological Society,the Meteorological Society of Japan, the Weather Modification Association, and the Electrostatics Society of America. In 1976, Vommegut was awarded the American Meteorological Society Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Applied Meteorology 'for his pioneering discoveries of artificial techiques for the nucleation of ice crystals which have continued to provide the basis for weather modification'. In 1977 Vonnegut was awarded the Weather Modification Association Vincent J. Schaefer Award for 'scientific and technical discoveries that have constituted a major contribution to the advancement of weather modification'. Vonnegut is Honorary President of the International commission on Atmospheric Electricity of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. In February 1984 he was named Distinguished Research Professor by the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York. He is the author or co-author of over 160 refereed articles in the scientific literature, 11 technical reports, 4 chapters in books on atmospheric electricity, 4 articles in encyclopedia, and a variety of shorter contributions in the scientific literature, book reviews, and popular magazine articles. He is the recipient of 28 patents. Husband of the late Lois B. Vonnegut. Father of Peter Vonnegut of East Greenbush, Scott Vonnegut of South Hero, VT, Terry Vonnegut of Albany, Kurt Vonnegut of Schuylerville, NY and Alex Vonnegut of Cohoes. Brother of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. of New York, NY and the late Alice Adams. Also survived by seven grandchildren. Friends are invited to a Memorial Service, 12:15 p.m., Friday, May 9th at the Campus Center Assembly Hall at SUNY-Albany. Contributions in memory of Dr. Vonnegut may be made to Langmuir Labs, c/o New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, Att: William P. Winn or to The Community Hospice of Albany, 315 Manning Blvd., Albany, NY 12208.
Deceased Name: BERNARD VONNEGUT
GUILDERLAND -- Bernard Vonnegut, Ph.D. died April 25, 1997. Bernard Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 29, 1914. He attended local public elementary schools, Shortridge High School, and the Park School, from which he graduated in 1932. He continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in chemistry, and received his B.S. in 1936. He entered the graduate School at M.I.T. and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1939. His doctoral thesis involved measurement of the freezing points of dilute aqueous solutions. From 1939 to 1941 he was employed by the Hartford Empire Company to carry out research on the surface properties and breaking stress of glass. He performed this work first at the Preston Laboratories in Butler, Pennsylvania, and later at the Hartford Empire Laboratories in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1941 Vonnegut returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. He worked on aerosol generation and filtration at the chemical Warfare Service Development Laboratories in the Chemical Engineering Department. From 1943 to 1945 in the Meteorology Department he did research on the icing of aircraft, the adhesion of ice, and the properties of supercooled clouds. In 1945 he joined the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. In the chemistry group his research efforts involved the supercooling of liquid tin metal. Later, with Irving Langmuir and Vincent Schaefer, he worked on cloud seeding and other problems related to cloud physics. During this period he found that supercooled clouds could be seeded with silver iodide, and devised techniques for seeding with this material from the ground and from airplanes. In connection with his research in cloud physics at General Electric, Vonnegut devised instruments for specialized measurements, such as the vortex thermometer for measuring true air temperature from an airplane, and an automatic condensation nuceli meter for measuring aerosols. Vonnegut joined Arthur D. Little, Inc., in 1952. Here he proposed an idea to explain thunderstorm electrification based on the transport of space charge in updrafts and downdrafts. He also suggested that thunderstorm electrification may possibly be important in precipitation formation and tornadoes. In association with Charles Moore, he was primarily involved with research into atmospheric electricity and cloud physics. He also was concerned with research on problems of aerosol production and measurement, the miniaturization of electrical recorders, electrostatic hazards in industry, glass fiber formation, and the behavior of evaporating, electrified droplets. In January 1967, Vonnegut joined the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of the State University of New York at Albany as a Senior Research Scientist. Here he continued his research, investigating electrification in thunderstorms, the role of electricity in precipitation formation, and the kinetics of nucleation. Vonnegut also holds the academic rank of Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science where he teaches courses in atmospheric electricity, atmospheric instrumentation and atmospheric chemistry. Vonnegut is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Meteorological Society,the Meteorological Society of Japan, the Weather Modification Association, and the Electrostatics Society of America. In 1976, Vommegut was awarded the American Meteorological Society Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Applied Meteorology 'for his pioneering discoveries of artificial techiques for the nucleation of ice crystals which have continued to provide the basis for weather modification'. In 1977 Vonnegut was awarded the Weather Modification Association Vincent J. Schaefer Award for 'scientific and technical discoveries that have constituted a major contribution to the advancement of weather modification'. Vonnegut is Honorary President of the International commission on Atmospheric Electricity of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. In February 1984 he was named Distinguished Research Professor by the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York. He is the author or co-author of over 160 refereed articles in the scientific literature, 11 technical reports, 4 chapters in books on atmospheric electricity, 4 articles in encyclopedia, and a variety of shorter contributions in the scientific literature, book reviews, and popular magazine articles. He is the recipient of 28 patents. Husband of the late Lois B. Vonnegut. Father of Peter Vonnegut of East Greenbush, Scott Vonnegut of South Hero, VT, Terry Vonnegut of Albany, Kurt Vonnegut of Schuylerville, NY and Alex Vonnegut of Cohoes. Brother of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. of New York, NY and the late Alice Adams. Also survived by seven grandchildren. Friends are invited to a Memorial Service, 12:15 p.m., Friday, May 9th at the Campus Center Assembly Hall at SUNY-Albany. Contributions in memory of Dr. Vonnegut may be made to Langmuir Labs, c/o New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, Att: William P. Winn or to The Community Hospice of Albany, 315 Manning Blvd., Albany, NY 12208.
BERNARD VONNEGUT:- May 7, 1997
Deceased Name: BERNARD VONNEGUT
GUILDERLAND -- Bernard Vonnegut, Ph.D. died April 25, 1997. Bernard Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 29, 1914. He attended local public elementary schools, Shortridge High School, and the Park School, from which he graduated in 1932. He continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in chemistry, and received his B.S. in 1936. He entered the graduate School at M.I.T. and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1939. His doctoral thesis involved measurement of the freezing points of dilute aqueous solutions. From 1939 to 1941 he was employed by the Hartford Empire Company to carry out research on the surface properties and breaking stress of glass. He performed this work first at the Preston Laboratories in Butler, Pennsylvania, and later at the Hartford Empire Laboratories in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1941 Vonnegut returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. He worked on aerosol generation and filtration at the chemical Warfare Service Development Laboratories in the Chemical Engineering Department. From 1943 to 1945 in the Meteorology Department he did research on the icing of aircraft, the adhesion of ice, and the properties of supercooled clouds. In 1945 he joined the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. In the chemistry group his research efforts involved the supercooling of liquid tin metal. Later, with Irving Langmuir and Vincent Schaefer, he worked on cloud seeding and other problems related to cloud physics. During this period he found that supercooled clouds could be seeded with silver iodide, and devised techniques for seeding with this material from the ground and from airplanes. In connection with his research in cloud physics at General Electric, Vonnegut devised instruments for specialized measurements, such as the vortex thermometer for measuring true air temperature from an airplane, and an automatic condensation nuceli meter for measuring aerosols. Vonnegut joined Arthur D. Little, Inc., in 1952. Here he proposed an idea to explain thunderstorm electrification based on the transport of space charge in updrafts and downdrafts. He also suggested that thunderstorm electrification may possibly be important in precipitation formation and tornadoes. In association with Charles Moore, he was primarily involved with research into atmospheric electricity and cloud physics. He also was concerned with research on problems of aerosol production and measurement, the miniaturization of electrical recorders, electrostatic hazards in industry, glass fiber formation, and the behavior of evaporating, electrified droplets. In January 1967, Vonnegut joined the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of the State University of New York at Albany as a Senior Research Scientist. Here he continued his research, investigating electrification in thunderstorms, the role of electricity in precipitation formation, and the kinetics of nucleation. Vonnegut also holds the academic rank of Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science where he teaches courses in atmospheric electricity, atmospheric instrumentation and atmospheric chemistry. Vonnegut is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Meteorological Society,the Meteorological Society of Japan, the Weather Modification Association, and the Electrostatics Society of America. In 1976, Vommegut was awarded the American Meteorological Society Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Applied Meteorology 'for his pioneering discoveries of artificial techiques for the nucleation of ice crystals which have continued to provide the basis for weather modification'. In 1977 Vonnegut was awarded the Weather Modification Association Vincent J. Schaefer Award for 'scientific and technical discoveries that have constituted a major contribution to the advancement of weather modification'. Vonnegut is Honorary President of the International commission on Atmospheric Electricity of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. In February 1984 he was named Distinguished Research Professor by the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York. He is the author or co-author of over 160 refereed articles in the scientific literature, 11 technical reports, 4 chapters in books on atmospheric electricity, 4 articles in encyclopedia, and a variety of shorter contributions in the scientific literature, book reviews, and popular magazine articles. He is the recipient of 28 patents. Husband of the late Lois B. Vonnegut. Father of Peter Vonnegut of East Greenbush, Scott Vonnegut of South Hero, VT, Terry Vonnegut of Albany, Kurt Vonnegut of Schuylerville, NY and Alex Vonnegut of Cohoes. Brother of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. of New York, NY and the late Alice Adams. Also survived by seven grandchildren. Friends are invited to a Memorial Service, 12:15 p.m., Friday, May 9th at the Campus Center Assembly Hall at SUNY-Albany. Contributions in memory of Dr. Vonnegut may be made to Langmuir Labs, c/o New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, Att: William P. Winn or to The Community Hospice of Albany, 315 Manning Blvd., Albany, NY 12208.
Deceased Name: BERNARD VONNEGUT
GUILDERLAND -- Bernard Vonnegut, Ph.D. died April 25, 1997. Bernard Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 29, 1914. He attended local public elementary schools, Shortridge High School, and the Park School, from which he graduated in 1932. He continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in chemistry, and received his B.S. in 1936. He entered the graduate School at M.I.T. and received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1939. His doctoral thesis involved measurement of the freezing points of dilute aqueous solutions. From 1939 to 1941 he was employed by the Hartford Empire Company to carry out research on the surface properties and breaking stress of glass. He performed this work first at the Preston Laboratories in Butler, Pennsylvania, and later at the Hartford Empire Laboratories in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1941 Vonnegut returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Associate. He worked on aerosol generation and filtration at the chemical Warfare Service Development Laboratories in the Chemical Engineering Department. From 1943 to 1945 in the Meteorology Department he did research on the icing of aircraft, the adhesion of ice, and the properties of supercooled clouds. In 1945 he joined the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. In the chemistry group his research efforts involved the supercooling of liquid tin metal. Later, with Irving Langmuir and Vincent Schaefer, he worked on cloud seeding and other problems related to cloud physics. During this period he found that supercooled clouds could be seeded with silver iodide, and devised techniques for seeding with this material from the ground and from airplanes. In connection with his research in cloud physics at General Electric, Vonnegut devised instruments for specialized measurements, such as the vortex thermometer for measuring true air temperature from an airplane, and an automatic condensation nuceli meter for measuring aerosols. Vonnegut joined Arthur D. Little, Inc., in 1952. Here he proposed an idea to explain thunderstorm electrification based on the transport of space charge in updrafts and downdrafts. He also suggested that thunderstorm electrification may possibly be important in precipitation formation and tornadoes. In association with Charles Moore, he was primarily involved with research into atmospheric electricity and cloud physics. He also was concerned with research on problems of aerosol production and measurement, the miniaturization of electrical recorders, electrostatic hazards in industry, glass fiber formation, and the behavior of evaporating, electrified droplets. In January 1967, Vonnegut joined the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of the State University of New York at Albany as a Senior Research Scientist. Here he continued his research, investigating electrification in thunderstorms, the role of electricity in precipitation formation, and the kinetics of nucleation. Vonnegut also holds the academic rank of Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science where he teaches courses in atmospheric electricity, atmospheric instrumentation and atmospheric chemistry. Vonnegut is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Meteorological Society,the Meteorological Society of Japan, the Weather Modification Association, and the Electrostatics Society of America. In 1976, Vommegut was awarded the American Meteorological Society Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Applied Meteorology 'for his pioneering discoveries of artificial techiques for the nucleation of ice crystals which have continued to provide the basis for weather modification'. In 1977 Vonnegut was awarded the Weather Modification Association Vincent J. Schaefer Award for 'scientific and technical discoveries that have constituted a major contribution to the advancement of weather modification'. Vonnegut is Honorary President of the International commission on Atmospheric Electricity of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. In February 1984 he was named Distinguished Research Professor by the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York. He is the author or co-author of over 160 refereed articles in the scientific literature, 11 technical reports, 4 chapters in books on atmospheric electricity, 4 articles in encyclopedia, and a variety of shorter contributions in the scientific literature, book reviews, and popular magazine articles. He is the recipient of 28 patents. Husband of the late Lois B. Vonnegut. Father of Peter Vonnegut of East Greenbush, Scott Vonnegut of South Hero, VT, Terry Vonnegut of Albany, Kurt Vonnegut of Schuylerville, NY and Alex Vonnegut of Cohoes. Brother of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. of New York, NY and the late Alice Adams. Also survived by seven grandchildren. Friends are invited to a Memorial Service, 12:15 p.m., Friday, May 9th at the Campus Center Assembly Hall at SUNY-Albany. Contributions in memory of Dr. Vonnegut may be made to Langmuir Labs, c/o New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, Att: William P. Winn or to The Community Hospice of Albany, 315 Manning Blvd., Albany, NY 12208.
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