VIP Biography for
John Ettinger Tompkins
 | John Ettinger Tompkins |
| Industry | Government/defense laboratory |
| Title | Chief, Radiation Effects Physics Branch (1974-78); Served as consultant to the Defense Nuclear Agency, and the DOD and DOE Safeguard Vulnerability Working Groups |
| Expertise | Electromagnetics, mathematics, nuclear radiation effects |
| Current Organization | U.S. Army Harry Diamond Laboratories (1949-1978), currently titled the Army Research Laboratory |
| Type of Organization | Military Research and Development |
| University/Degree | B.A., Physics, 1944; M.A., Physics, 1951, George Washington University |
| Born | November 6, 1922, Waterloo, Iowa |
| Honors & Awards | National Level Team Award from Office of Army Research Lt. Gen. Austin Betts, 1970 |
| Published Works | Proceedings of the IRE, Mar. 1957, "Ferrod Radiator Systems" (co-author), Journal of Applied Physics papers, Sept. 1957 and Mar. 1958, "Field Configuration and Energy Distribution in Ferrites", Proceedings of the Conference on Solid State Physics in Electronics and Telecommunications, 1958, Brussels (pub. by Academic Press, Ltd.), a major classified study in the Journal of Missile Defense Research, 1972 and numerous analyses in electromagnetic effects of nuclear radiation on components of military systems; Served as President of subchapter S corporation providing computer and secretarial services to the Potomac Division, Automatic Data Processing, Inc. |
| Affiliations | Sigma Xi; Sigma Pi Sigma; A.A.A.S. |
| Hobbies & Sports | Piano performance, active with The Guild of Greenville Symphony Orchestra |
| Work History | Oak Ridge, TN, 1944-46 work on the thermal and gaseous diffusion processes for isotopic enrichment of U-235; (suffered near fatal injuries in a large explosion of UF6 in Sept. 1944 at a pilot plant at the Philadelphia Navy Yard); 1951-59 part-time lecturer in Physics, George Washington University |
| Children | Nancy Tompkins Christie, born 1952; Charles Boyd Tompkins, born 1954; Grandchildren: Shayna Christie, born 1980; Gregory Tompkins, born 1987, Kevin Tompkins, born 1990; Vivian Tompkins, born 1994 |
| Spouse | Ruth Boyd |
| Married | September 30, 1950 |
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