Paul H. Kirkpatrick (July 21, 1894 – December 26, 1992) was co-inventor of the
X-ray reflection microscope, and the imaging technique he and his graduate student
Albert Baez developed is still used, particularly in astronomy to take X-ray pictures of galaxies and in medicine.
[Paul Kirkpatrick, inventor of the X-ray microscope, dead at 98]
. Obituary, Stanford University, 1992 An award in his name was established in the Physics Department at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
to recognize those graduate students who have demonstrated a talent for and commitment to the teaching of physics to undergraduates.
[PAUL H. KIRKPATRICK AWARD]
". Obituary, Stanford University
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1992 deaths
Stanford University Department of Physics faculty
Microscopists
1894 births