Jerome Duggan

Submitted By jev0010 on Mon, 12/15/2014 - 12:51pm
Jerome Duggan (’55, '56 M.A.), 81, Professor Emeritus of physics, died Aug. 31 in Denton. He served on the physics faculty from 1973 to 2012. He earned his North Texas degrees in physics and a doctorate from Louisiana State University. Before coming to UNT, he was an assistant professor at the University of Georgia and then worked at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. He started the International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry in 1968 and brought the biennial conference with him to UNT, where it drew the world's top physicists to disucss the applications of particle accelerators. He attended the 23rd conference this year in San Antonio as Conference Chair Emeritus. He received the UNT President’s Award in 1987. He was awarded a special medal at the 1995 meeting of the Particle Induced X-Ray Emission Conference in Padua, Italy. He was made a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000. Memorials can be made to: the Dr. Jerome L. Duggan Memorial Scholarship in Physics at the UNT Foundation, 1155 Union Circle No. 311250, Denton, TX 76203 or donate online.

Jerome Duggan (’55, '56 M.A.), 81, Professor Emeritus of physics, died Aug. 31 in Denton. He served on the physics faculty from 1973 to 2012. He earned his North Texas degrees in physics and a doctorate from Louisiana State University. Before coming to UNT, he was an assistant professor at the University of Georgia and then worked at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

He started the International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry in 1968 and brought the biennial conference with him to UNT, where it drew the world's top physicists to disucss the applications of particle accelerators. He attended the 23rd conference this year in San Antonio as Conference Chair Emeritus.

He received the UNT President’s Award in 1987. He was awarded a special medal at the 1995 meeting of the Particle Induced X-Ray Emission Conference in Padua, Italy. He was made a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000.

Memorials can be made to: the Dr. Jerome L. Duggan Memorial Scholarship in Physics at the UNT Foundation, 1155 Union Circle No. 311250, Denton, TX 76203 or donate online.

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