John Adam Fleming Award to Carl E. McIlwain

Abstract

Carl E. Mcllwain was born in Houston, Texas, in 1931 and attended elementary and high schools in Texas, Georgia, and Kentucky. In 1949 he auditioned for and won the Phi‐Mu‐Alpha Symphonia Award of a full tuition scholarship at North Texas State College, Denton, Texas, which at the time made him decide that music might offer a more interesting career than science. He studied flute for several years and in 1953 received the degree of B.Mus.Ed. In 1954 he entered graduate school at the State University of Iowa with the hope of studying the physics of music, but as he could not find a suitable advisor, he decided to concentrate on physics. We must be thankful that physics and music were not well integrated at the University of Iowa in 1954, as otherwise we might have had to do without the services of one of our most outstanding experimental space physicists.