Field-Of-Study: Physics

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1927: Woodrow, Jay Walter: Appointed for a study of the phosphorescent, chemiluminiscent, and photoelectric properties of those substances which wither have antirachitic characteristics or can be activated by exposure to ultra-violet light, principally with Professor J. S. E. Townsend at Oxford University and Professor E. Rutherford at Cambridge

Professor Emeritus Lawrence (Larry) Wilets was born on January 4, 1927, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He graduated as valedictorian from Burlington (Wisconsin) High School in 1944. He served in the U.S. Navy in 1944-45, and earned a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1948. He received a master’s degree in 1950 and a Ph.D.