Lake Forest College 555 N. Sheridan Road Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Phone: (847) 735-5161 (office) (847) 234-6537 (home) FAX: (847) 735-6291 E-mail: donnally@lfc.edu

EMPLOYMENT:

• Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, Lake Forest College, 1994 - 1995
• Provost, Lake Forest College, l981-1989
• Dean of the Faculty, Lake Forest College, 1977-1989
• Chairman of Physics Department, Lake Forest College, 1967-1977, 1990 - 1995
• Professor of Physics, Lake Forest College, 1966-present
• Associate Professor of Physics, Lake Forest College, 1963-1966
• Assistant Professor of Physics, Lake Forest College, 1961-63
• Visiting Fellow, Yale University, 1966-1967
• Visiting Professor, Auburn University, Summer 1961
• Instructor and Assistant Professor of Physics, College of St. Thomas, 1955-1961, Chairman of Department, 1959-61

OFFICES, HONORS, AND ACTIVITIES:

• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Fellow of the Photographic Society of America
• Chairman of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Board of Deans
• President of American Association of Physics Teachers, 1971
• Recipient of "Distinguished Service Citation" of American Association of Physics Teachers
• Recipient of Trustee Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership at Lake Forest College
• Councilor, Council on Undergraduate Research
• Member, American Institute of Physics Governing Board
• Member, Commission on College physics
• Member, Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Member, Advisory Committee of Research Corporation, 1972-1978
• Member, Faculty Advisory Committee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education
• Member, Project Kaleidoscope Leadership Committee
• Member, Project Kaleidoscope Facilities Workshop Steering Committee
• Honorary member, Southern Association of Science and Industry
• Participant, White House Conference on Budget Priorities in Physics, 1972
• Davisson-Germer Award Committee of the American Physical Society 1973, chairman 1975
• National Science Foundation Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics Program review committee.
• Chairman, 1978
• Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Lecturer
• Advisory Committee for Fourth Conference on the Use of Small Accelerators, 1976
• Council on Undergraduate Research, Physics Councilor
• Visiting Committee for Education Division of Argonne National Laboratory
• Physical Sciences Advisory Committee, Auburn University
• Visiting Committee for Physics Department, Purdue University
• Departmental or divisional reviewer for many colleges and universities
• Consultant for Research Corporation Departmental Development Program
• Middlebury Conference on Teaching of Physics in Liberal Arts Colleges, 1964, Leader
• Resource Person, Research Corporation Conference for New Department Chairmen, 1971
• Chairman of AAPT Committee on Apparatus for Educational Institutions for three years 1966-69
• Chairman of AAPT Committee on Special Lectures, 1966

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., Physics, University of Minnesota, 1961
• M.S., Physics, Auburn University, 1952
• B.S., Engineering Physics, Auburn University, 1951

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OR HONOR FRATERNITIES:

• Phi Beta Kappa (Honorary Member)
• American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities
• American Conference of Academic Deans
• American Physical Society
• American Association of Physics Teachers
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Kappa Phi Kappa (Education)
• Sigma Xi (Research)
• Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics)
• Pi Mu Epsilon (Math)
• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering)
• Phi Kappa Phi (General Scholarship)

TEACHING AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Taught most undergraduate physics courses offered at Lake Forest College. Special interest in student research and courses especially designed for people not majoring in the sciences. Also taught a variety of photography courses in the Art Department.
• Developed experiments and apparatus for undergraduate laboratories; Examples: (1) Spin-lattice relaxation time measurement, (2) Demonstration of negative absolute temperature and stimulated emission using NMR, (3) Lamb Shift measurement, (4) Simple coincidence circuit, (5) Molecular beam apparatus for measuring collision cross-section or molecular diameters, (6) Experiments with simple beta-ray spectrometer.
• Prize winner in 1965 AAPT Apparatus Competition for spin-lattice relaxation time measurement, demonstration of negative absolute temperature and stimulated emission using NMR, and Lamb Shift measurement.
• Directed or participated in many training programs for high school teachers, including a special program for teachers of advanced placement physics, an Institute for the Illinois State Physics Project and several others.
• Formerly active in Minnesota State AAPT Section and currently active in Chicago Area Section. Served as President of Chicago Area Section 1964-1965.
• Participated in planning and operating the 1965 Conference on Experiments for Instructional Laboratories in Physics held at Lake Forest College, and cited by COPFIC (in Physics in the Four-Year Colleges) as the kind of program that should be expanded.
• Participated in AAPT-AIP Visiting Scientist Program in Physics. Also participated in high school Visiting Scientist Programs.
• Program Director, 1975-76, Argonne-ACM Program

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PROVOST AND DEAN OF THE FACULTY:

• Served as Chief academic officer
• Acted for President in his absence
• Developed and oversaw academic budgets
• Stimulated creation of several new major programs
• Proposed and instituted foreign internship/study programs in Madrid and Paris
• Instituted Richter Apprentice Scholar Program which involves gifted freshmen in faculty research
• Led institutional thrust toward a strong curriculum in Asian studies, persuaded several departments to hire
• Asian specialists, and introduced, very successfully, Japanese language instruction, and introduced Asian Studies major.
• Led institutional project in strengthening the sciences, including improving support staff, adding faculty, developing departmental plans, adding a new building for faculty/student research, and upgrading equipment
• Promoted tightening of academic standards, both in regulations and in practice, which has resulted in significant increase in academic intensity on campus
• Oversaw Library, encouraging innovative practices have allowed us to achieve unusually high efficiency
• of use of the collection, high use per capita, by using a high level of automation, relatively low cost, and effectiveness in a curriculum which emphasizes research and writing.
• In charge of computing, both academic and administrative. Secured large NSF grant to develop academic computing which has led to computers being very prominent for our students. Instituted grant and interest- free loan program for faculty purchase of computers leading to approximately 80 percent of the faculty purchasing computers. Led administrative acceptance of computers. Promoted strong planning in academic computing for the future.
• Substantially increased retention.
• Planned and oversaw construction of new science research building as well as major renovations of buildings to house departments of Art, Economics and Business, Education, History, Mathematics and Computer studies, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology
• Met with senators, congressmen and other legislative leaders to explain needs and ambitions of higher education and to urge favorable action
• Visited foundation officers to explore possible mutual interests. Worked with Development Office and others to prepare proposals for projects.

PHOTOGRAPHIC HONORS AND ACTIVITIES:

• Fellow of the Photographic Society of America (for exhibition record and for service to photography.)
• Listed in Photographic Society of America's "Whos Who" as one of the "Top 50 Monochrome Print Exhibitors in the World" for seven years.
• Chairman, Techniques Division of Photographic Society of America.
• Treasurer, Photographic Society of America
• Winner of four Kinsley Awards (Sponsored by Kodak, awarded for best three diverse photographs accepted in the annual Photographic Society of America International Exhibition of Photography), One in Monochrome Print division, one in Color Print Division and two in Photo-journalism.
• Winner of "The Photographers Award", (an award for photographic excellence given annually to a person in the Chicago area.)
• Winner of over 1000 honors for individual photographs including the John Mudd award, the Wellington Lee Award and the PPD Medal.

GRANTS:

Awarded numerous grants for research and educational projects by National Science Foundation, Research Corporation, General Electric Foundation, Atomic Energy Commission, Department of Energy, and Shell Foundation.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:

• Applications of mass spectrometry
• Low Temperature plasma diagnostics
• Polarized particle sources
• Educational apparatus
• Medical instrumentation

RESEARCH TOPICS:

• Measurement of lifetime of metastable negative ions
• Development of high sensitivity mass spectrometer
• Development of polarized proton source for University of Minnesota proton linear accelerator
• Measurement of polarization in nuclear scattering of protons
• Production of metastable hydrogen atoms by charge exchange
• Polarized proton, deuteron and electron sources
• Study of ionizing atom-atom collisions
• Study of atom-surface interactions
• X-ray studies of l-, 2-, and 3-electron heavy ions
• Studies of electron ejection from metastable species of simple, highly stripped heavy ions
• Production of negative ions by multiple charge exchange
• Studies of positron-surface interactions
• Tests of quantum electrodynamics

PATENTS:

• Process for producing negative hydrogen ions from protons, Serial No. 452,78l.
• Process for producing negative hydrogen ions, Serial No. 554,720.
• Process for producing negative helium ions, Serial No. 547,800.

PUBLICATIONS:

• "Metastable States of highly Excited Heavy Ions" (with D.J. Pegg, I.A. Sellin, and W.W. Smith) Atomic Physics, 3, Stephen Smith and G.K. Walters, Editors, (Plenum Press, New York, 1973).
• "Beam Fractions in the Lowest-Quartet Metastable Autoionizing State for 0 5+ and F 6+ Beams after Passage through foils" (with W.W. Smith, D.J. Pegg, Matt Brown, and I.A. Sellin) Phys. Rev. A 7, 487 (1973).
• "Lifetime of the Metastable Auto-ionizing (ls2s2p)4 P 5/2 States of Lithiumlike F 0+ Ions" (with W.W. Smith, D.J. Pegg, Matt Brown, and I.A. Sellin), Phys. Rev. A 4, 122 (1971).
• "Spectra of Autoionization Electrons Emitted by Fast, Metastable Beams of Highly Stripped Oxygen and Flourine Ions" with I.A. Sellin, D.J. Pegg, Matt Brown, W.W. Smith), Phys. Rev. Letters 27, 1108 (1971).
• "Collisional Excitation of Metastable Autoionizing States of Lithiumlike Ions in Fast Beams - Spectra and Yields" (with W.W. Smith, I.A. Sellin, M. Brown, and D. Pegg), Seventh International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, July, 1971 (North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1971).
• "The Fraction of Hydrogen Atoms in the 2S State Produced by charge Exchange Between Protons and Cesium Vapor" (with J.E. O'Dell) Seventh International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, July, 1971. (North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1971.
• "Lamb Shift Sources," Proc. Symp. on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Reactions, 3rd. (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1970).
• "Mean Life of the Metastable 2 p, State of the Two-Electron Oxygen Ion (with I.A. Sellin, M. Brown, and W.W. Smith) Phys. Rev. A 2, 1189 (1970).
• "Experimental Transition Probabilities for Triplet-Singlet Transitions in Helium-Like Heavy Ions" (with I.A. Sellin and C.Y. Fan), Phys. Rev. Let. 21, 717 (1968).
• "Progress in Producing Metastable States of One-Electron Heavy Ions" (with I.A. Sellin), Beam Foil Spectroscopy, S. Bashkin, Editor (Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, New York, 1968).
• "Spin Polarization of Electrons Ejected in Collisional Ionization of Fast Polarized Metastable Deuterium Atoms" (with W. Raith and R. Becker), Phys. Rev. 20, 575 (1968).
• "Negative Helium Ions from Metastable Helium Atoms" (with George Thoeming) Phys. Rev. 159, 87 (1967).
• "On the Possibility of Producing Polarized Electrons from Polarized Metastable Deuterium Atoms" Fifth International Conference on the Physics on Electronic and Atomic Collisions, Leningrad, July, 1967 (Nauka, Leningrad, 1967).
• "Production of Negative Helium Ions by Nearly Resonant Charge Exchange in Potassium" (with R. Ennis, G. Thoeming, D. Schechter and D. Schlafke), IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, NS-14, 75 (1967).
• "Production of H- from H (2S)" (with William Sawyer), Proc. of the International Conference on Polarization Phenomena of Nucleons, Karlsruhe, 1965 (Birkhauser Verlag, Basel and Stuttgart, 1966).
• "Proposal for a Source of Polarized Negative Hydrogen Ions" (with William Sawyer), Phys. Rev. Let. 15, 439 (1965).
• "Metastable Hydrogen Atoms Produced in Charge Exchange" (with T. Clapp, W. Sawyer, and M. Schultz), Phys. Rev. Let. 12, 502 (1964).
• "Some Experiments on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance" (with Enrique Bernal), Am. J. Phys. 31, 770 (1963).
• "Coincidence Circuit," Am. J. Phys. 31, 133 (1963).
• "Apparatus Notes" (with H. Jensen and t. Jeong, Am. J. Phys. 32 xv (October 1964); Am. J. Phys. 32 xv (April, 1964).
• "Simple Marginal Oscillator" (with T. M. Sanders), Rev. Sci. Inst. 31, 977 (1960).
• "Metastable Negative Ions" (with H. Carr), Phys. Rev. 93, 111 (1954).

ABSTRACTS:

• "Coincidence Study of Electrons Ejected at Surfaces by Metastable Helium Atoms" (with J. Shackelford Toms) Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 22, 89 (1977).
• "Ejection of Electrons by Metastable Atoms at Dirty Surfaces" Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 20, 826 (1975).
• "Polarization of Electrons Ejected in Collisions of Polarized D(2S) with K" (with R. Faber, J. Kiell, and M. Monaham) Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 19, 38 (1974).
• "Spin Polarization of Electrons Ejected at Surfaces by Polarized Metastable Helium Atoms" (with Roger Faber, Judith Gates, and Charles Volk) Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 18, 141, (1973).
• "Autoionization Lifetimes of the Lowest Metastable Quartet State in Fast Beams of Lithiumlike F 6+ and O 5+ Ions." (with T.A. Sellin, D.J. Pegg, M. Brown, and W.W. Smith), Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 16, 106 (1971).
• "Observation of Stark Quenching of the 2s State of 0 7+" (with W.W. Smith, M. Brown, D. Pegg and I.A. Sellin) Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 16, 196 (1971).
• "Measurement of the Total Transition Probability for the 2 3P State of O 6+" (with I.A. Sellin, Winthrop W. Smith, and Matt Brown) Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 15, 57 (1970).
• "Soft X-Rays from Stripped O Beams" (with I.A. Sellin) Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 14, 731 (1969).
• "Measurement of Triplet-Singlet Transition Probabilities in Two-Electron Heavy Ions" (with I.A. Sellin and C.Y. Fan) International Symposium on the Physics of One- and Two- Electron Atoms, Munich, 1968.
• "Polarized Electron Beams from Polarized Atoms," Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 13, 98 (1968) (invited paper).
• "Negative Polarized Ions from Metastable Hydrogen Atoms, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 12, 1179 (1967). (invited paper).
• "rf State Selection in Polarized Hydrogen Negative Ion Sources," Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 12, 509 (1967).
• "Conversion of Protons to Hydrogen Negative Ions (with Roger Becker), Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 12, 509 (1967).
• "Negative Helium Ions from Metastable Helium Atoms" (with George Thoeming) Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 11, 456 (1966).
• H(2S) Produced in charge Transfer between Low-Energy Protons and Gas Molecules: (with Thomas Richards and W. Sawyer), Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 10, 85 (1965).
• "Experiments for the Advanced Laboratory" SESAPS, Nov., 1965, p. 25.
• "Lamb Shift Apparatus for Instructional Laboratories," Am. J. Phys. 33, 874 (1965) and Am. J. Phys. 33, 358 (1965).
• "Experiments with a Beta-Ray Spectrometer in the Undergraduate Nuclear Physics Laboratory," Am. J. Phys. 30 (A) (1962).
• "Measurement of Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time in a Liquid" (with E. Bernal), Am. J. Phys. 30, 550(A) (1962).
• "Nuclear Magnetic Reasonance Detector suitable for Undergraduate Demonstrations and Laboratories," Am. J. Phys. 28, 412 (A) (1960).
• "Microwave Generator," Am. J. Phys. 26, 646 (A) (1958).
• "Metastable Negative Ions" (with H. Carr and J. Dozier), Phys. Rev. 87, 1970 (1952).
• "Apparatus for Measuring Atomic Diameters" with W. Sawyer", Am. J. Physics 32, 328 (A) (1964).

PERSONAL:

• Born - June 22, 1930
• Married - September 2, 1955
  
  • Wife - Patricia
    
  • Children - Bailey (deceased), Brian, Diane
    

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