In Memorium: James H. Crawford, Jr.
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In Memorium
James H. Crawford, Jr. James Homer Crawford, Jr., professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the first chairman of the Curriculum in Applied Science, University ofNorth Carolina, died unexpectedly on October20,1984, attheage of 62. Crawford was an active member of MRS. He was one of the chairpersons of the 1983 MRS symposium on Defect Properties and Processing of HighTechnology Nonmetallic Materials, an invited speaker at several MRS symposia, and instrumental in the formation of the North Carolina Local Section of MRS. Jim was born in Union, SC, on May 19, 1922. After receiving a BSfrom Wof ford College and serving in the U. S. A rmy in World War II, he earned a PhD in the Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina. In 1968 Wofford College awarded him an honorary DSc degree. During the period 1949-1967, Jim was a scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He rose to the position of associate director of the Solid State Division where he conducted extensive research on the effects of high-energy radiation on the electrical and the structural properties of crystalline and glassy solids. This work included pioneering investigations of the effects of fast neutrons and gamma rays on semiconductors. Along with related efforts by Lark-Horovitz' group at Purdue, these experiments provided the first detailed information on the electron donor/acceptor states due to point defects in germanium and silicon. An early authoritative discussion of these effects was presented in the book Radiation Damage in Solids, which Crawford co-authored with Douglas Billington in 1961. Crawford returned to North Carolina in 1967 to serve as chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University at Chapel Hill, a post which he held for 10 years. He returned to full-time teaching and research in 1977, and recently had become the first chairman of a new cross-disciplinary curriculum in applied science.
During his tenure at UNC, while cheerfully and effectively giving his
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