Robert D. Purrington

Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1966. Professor of Physics, Tulane University, 1966-2010, emeritus professor 2010-. Published numerous papers in quantum theory of scattering, nuclear structure, ocean acoustics, history of astronomy/archaeoastronomy. Books on the history of cosmology, Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, nineteenth-century physics, and the creation of quantum mechanics. Hobbies: birding, climbing.