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Thomas E. Phipps, Jr., born in Champaign, Illinois. Educated at Harvard, AB, 1944; Ph.D., 1950 in Nuclear Physics. Worked during World War II in P. M. Morse's Operations Research Group in the Navy Department, subsequently returning to Harvard to do an experimental thesis on Molecular Beam NMR under Norman Ramsey. His career included a total of twelve years in the Pentagon ? ten in systems analysis for the Navy and two in research management for the Department of Defense ? as well as similar employments at Navy laboratories in California and Maryland. In 1980 he retired to form a small private physics laboratory in collaboration with his father, an emeritus professor of physical chemistry at the University of Illinois, in which they performed experiments in electromagnetism. In 1986 he wrote a book, Heretical Verities: Mathematical Themes in Physical Description. After his father's death in 1990, he has continued both experimental and theoretical investigations into basic physics.

Articles (Mainstream):

• "Radiofrequency Spectrum of H₂ in a Magnetic Field," Phys. Rev. 79, 883 (1950) (with H. G. Kolsky, N. F. Ramsey, H. B. Silsbee).
• "Radiofrequency Spectrum of D₂ in a Magnetic Field," Phys. Rev. 80, 483 (1950) (with H. G. Kolsky,  N. F. Ramsey, H. B. Silsbee).
• "The Deuteron Quadrupole Moment and the Radiofrequency Spectra of H₂ and D₂ in Low Magnetic Fields," Phys. Rev. 81, 1061 (1951) (with H. G. Kolsky, N. F. Ramsey, H. B. Silsbee).
• "Nuclear Radiofrequency Spectra of H2 and D2 in High and Low Magnetic Fields, "Phys. Rev. 87, 395 (1952) (with H. G. Kolsky, N. F. Ramsey, H. B. Silsbee).
• "Generalization of Quantum Mechanics," Phys. Rev. 118, 1653 (1960).
• "Application of Numerical Methods to the Theory of the Periodic Deviations in the Schottky Effect," Phys. Rev. 128, 524 (1962) (with Geneva G. Belford, Aron Kuppermann).
• "Effusion. II. Angular Number Distributions of Gaseous Cadmium from a Right-Circular Cylindrical Orifice into Vacuum," J. Chem. Phys. 49, 1603 (1968) (with P. G. Wahlbeck).
• "Effusion. III. Angular Number Distributions of Gaseous CsCl from Right-Circular Cylindrical Orifices into Vacuum," J. Chem. Phys. 49, 1609 (1968) (with J. Q. Adams, P. G. Wahlbeck).
• "Effusion. V. Angular Number Distributions of Gaseous CsCl from a Conical Orifice into Vacuum," J. Chem. Phys. 51, 920 (1969)  (with J. Q. Adams, P. G. Wahlbeck).
• "A Continued Fraction Representation of Eigenvalues," SIAM Rev. 10, 223 (1968).
• "A Continued Fraction Representation of Eigenvalues," SIAM Rev. 13, 390 (1971).
• "A Double-Sum Identity," SIAM Rev. 13, 389 (1971).
• "Kinematics of a 'Rigid' Rotor," Lett. Nuovo Cimento, V9, pp. 467-470 (1974).
• "Comment on Marinov's Light Velocity Experiment," Physics Letters, 55(2), 83-84 (Feb 1978).
• "Ice Age in Physics," Phys. Today 36, 15 (1983).