Dr. Hugh E. Siefken
Professor of Physics
Head of Department of Physics
Chairman of Division of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Computer
Science
Year Started at Greenville
1969
Education
B.A. in Mathematics and Physics, Greenville College
M.S. in Physics, University of Kansas
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Kansas
Post Doctoral Study, University of British Columbia
Current Courses Taught
PHY 120 - General Physics I
PHY 210 - General Physics II
PHY 220 - General Physics III
PHY 318 - Theoretical Mechanics
PHY 400/401 - Senior Physics and Senior Physics Lab
SCI 102 - Energy and the Environment
Memberships
American Physical Society
American Society of Physics Teachers
Sigma Xi
Member Illinois Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers
Council (1976-82, 1984-90)
Other Positions Held
1975-76, 1978-79 - Chairman Faculty Council
1978-present - Chairman Physics Departments
1984-present - Chairman Division of Mathematics, Natural and Computer
Sciences
1983-86 - Greenville City Zoning Board
1981-83, 1987-present - Greenville City Planning Commission
1970-1990 - Board of Trustees Greenville Free Methodist Church
1982-94 - President Bond County Rod and Gun Club
1986-89 - President Illinois Section of the American Association
of Physics Teachers
1992-present - Board of Utlaut Health Services, Greenville, IL
Awards, Grants, Scholarships
1967-68 Socony-Mobil Fellowship
1971 Research Corporation Grant
1971 Outstanding Educators of America Award
1975 Who's Who in the Midwest Award
1976 American Men and Women in Science
1982 Who's Who in Technology Today
1987 McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Achievement Award
1993 Invited Speaker - NASA - Technology 2003 Conference
Papers/Books Written
"Divine Stardust" - Direction Journal, 29, 27 (2000).
"Magnetic Field Mapping" - The Physics Teacher, 35, 181
(1997).
"A Future, Intense Source of Negative Hydrogen Ions" -
NASA Conference 3249, 411 (1994).
"Equipment for an Inexpensive Introductory Optics Lab"
- The Physics Teacher, 32, 315 (1994).
"Direct Production of H- from LiH", Rev. Sci. Instrum.
63, 3394 (1992).
"Injector Physics", p. 164-232 in Cryogenic Accelerator
Development Program, Final Report D564-100007-6, MDAC - St. Louis,
June, 1987.
"Injector Transport Code Analysis", NPBIE Technical Paper
- 007, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, St. Louis, July 1986.
"The 204Pb(nn'y)2043b Reaction",
Physical Review C, 22, 928 (1980).
"Gamma-Ray Angular Distribution Measurements from the 121,123Sb(nn'y)
Reactions", Physical Review C, December (1979).
"Levels of 55Mn following Inelastic Neutron Scattering".
Physical Review C, January 1979.
"Energy Levels of 121Sb and 123Sb Excited
from the (nn'y) Reactions", 1977 CAP Congress Bulletin.
"Study of Ti47 with Sc45 (He,p) Ti47
and Sc45 (He,p) Ti47 Reactions", Nuclear Physics
Vol. 199A, 593, (1973).
"Gamma Ray Transitions in Ti46,47", Bulletin
of the American Physical Society Vol. 15, No. 12, p. 1673, (1970).
"Levels in N15 Resulting from the Proton Capture
of C14", Nuclear Physics Vol. 128A, No. 1, p. 162,
(1973).
"Lifetime Measurements in N15", Bulletin of
the American Physical Society Vol. 13, No. 11, p. 1423, (1968).
"The 9.16 MeV Doublet States in N15", Bulletin
of the American Physical Society Vol. 13. No. 11, p. 1423, (1968).
"Gamma Ray Transitions in N15", Bulletin of
the Amercian Physical Society Vol. 12, No. 4, p. 517, (1967).
Experience
1968-69 - Postdoctorate Associate in Nuclear Physics - University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
1969-Present - Professor, Physics Department - Greenville College
1970 (Summer) - Argonne National Library
1976-77 - Visiting Scientist - Nuclear Research Centre, University
of Alberta, Edmonton
1986-87 - McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company - NPBIE Physicist
on injector subsystems
1987-88 - Consultant - MDAC - St. Louis - Ion Optics
1989 - Consultant - U.S. Air Force - Kirtland A.F.B. - Albuquerque,
N.M.
Email:hugh.siefken
Office Phone: (618) 664-6526
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