Lawrence W. Fagg
Lawrence Wellburn Fagg Jr. (October 10, 1923 – May 3, 2015) was an American physicist.
Lawrence Wellburn Fagg Jr. was born in New Jersey to Lawrence W. Fagg Sr. and his wife Doris Virginia Shea Fagg on October 10, 1923.[1] The elder Fagg was recorded in the Army List and Directory of 1923 and 1926 as an infantry captain who had reported for duty on July 16, 1922.[2][3] Fagg Jr. was raised in Washington D.C., and attended the United States Military Academy. Fagg then completed a Master of Science in physics at the University of Maryland, followed by a Master of Arts in the same subject at the Illinois University, before pursuing a doctorate in nuclear physics at Johns Hopkins University. He worked for two stints at the Naval Research Laboratory.[1] While affiliated with the NRL in 1974, Fagg was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.[4] Fagg also worked for the Atlantic Research Corporation as a plasma physicist and served the Linear Electron Accelerator Laboratory as acting director as well as Catholic University of America as a research professor.[1] He held a Master of Arts in religion from George Washington University and wrote books on the intersection of religion and science, including The Becoming of Time: Integrating Physical and Religious Time (1995)[5] and Electromagnetism and the Sacred: At the Frontier of Spirit and Matter (1999).[6]
Fagg was married to Mary Godfrey Skipp from 1993 until her death in 2010.[1][7] In retirement, Fagg lived at The Willows Assisted Living Home in Winchester, Virginia, where he died on May 3, 2015.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "LAWRENCE W. FAGG". Washington Post. May 23, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2022. Republished by the Kent County News
- ^ Army Directory. United States Department of War. 1923. p. 40.
- ^ Army List and Directory. United States Adjutant-General's Office. 1926. p. 40.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Shields, George W. (October 2003). "The Becoming of Time: Integrating Physical and Religious Time. Lawrence W. Fagg". The Journal of Religion. 83 (4): 665–666. doi:10.1086/491442.
- ^ Bracken, Joseph A. (2001). "Electromagnetism and the Sacred: At the Frontier of Spirit and Matter (review)". Spiritus. 1 (2): 251–253. doi:10.1353/scs.2001.0021. S2CID 144135768.
- ^ "Mary Godfrey Skipp". Washington Post. November 18, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2022. Republished by Kent County News
- 1923 births
- 2015 deaths
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American physicists
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- George Washington University alumni
- Scientists from New Jersey
- Scientists from Washington, D.C.
- United States Military Academy alumni
- American plasma physicists
- American nuclear physicists
- Catholic University of America faculty
- American Christian writers
- American science writers
- Writers from Washington, D.C.
- Writers from New Jersey
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- Fellows of the American Physical Society