Henry Snowden Valk (January 26, 1929 – April 12, 2022) was an American physicist and academic. He was Professor Emeritus of Physics at the

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. Valk attended

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where he received his B.S. in

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in 1953 and M.S. in

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in 1954. He then earned his Ph.D. at

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in 1957. Before joining the faculty at the

, Valk was a professor of physics at the

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. While at Georgia Tech, Valk became Dean of the College of Science and Liberal Studies, which has since split into the College of Sciences, the College of Computing, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Valk died on April 12, 2022, at the age of 93.

Books

H. Valk, and M. Alonso, "Quantum Mechanics"

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, Melbourne 1986

References

External links

School of Physics profile
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