Robert Sproull

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Robert Lamb Sproull (born August 16, 1918)^[1] is a retired American educator, physicist, and US Department of Defense official.

Sproull was born in Lacon, Illinois. A graduate of Deep Springs College, Sproull studied English literature at Cornell University before taking a Ph.D. at the same university in physics. He began a promising and productive career as a physicist at Cornell and headed the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP) and the Materials Science Center. Sproull left Cornell to become director of ARPA where he was a strong advocate of cooperation among academia, government, and industry to meet US scientific needs for defense and competition with the Soviet Union.

After taking up an administrative post at Cornell, he became provost and vice president of the University of Rochester in 1968. While at Rochester, he also served on Cornell's Board of Trustees. In 1970, he became Rochester's President, and the trustees voted in 1974 to make him the university’s chief executive officer. He retired as president and became professor of physics at the university in 1985.^[2] He serves on the Board of the George C. Marshall Institute. He was Chairman of the Defense Science Board. He was a member of the Roundtable Council of the National Academy of Sciences.^[3]

In 2005, the University of Rochester named its Center for High Intensity Laser Research in his honor.^[2] In 2006, Sproull and his wife donated $1 million to create the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fund to support the work of the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR).^[4] In 2006, Sproull was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado.

During his term as President of the University of Rochester, Dr. Sproull was known by the nickname "Particle Bob", a reference to his background in physics.

Books

Sproull, Robert (1963). Modern Physics. John Wiley & Sons Inc. p. 630. ISBN 978-0-471-81845-8.

References

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↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.rochester.edu/news/email.php?refno=2153 Retrieved 2009-10-29.
↑ "Dr. Robert L. Sproull". George Marshall Institute. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
↑ "Cornell Center for Materials Research to benefit from $1 million endowment gift". Aug 24, 2006. Retrieved 2009-10-29.

Government offices
Preceded by Jack P. Ruina	Director of ARPA 1963 – 1965	Succeeded by Charles M. Herzfeld
Preceded by	Chairman of the Defense Science Board –	Succeeded by
Academic offices
Preceded by W. Allen Wallis	President of the University of Rochester 1970 – 1984	Succeeded by G. Dennis O'Brien

v t e Chairmen of the Defense Science Board

Howard Percy Robertson Clifford C. Furnas Robert Sproull Solomon J. Buchsbaum Norman R. Augustine Robert Everett John S. Foster, Jr. Paul G. Kaminski Craig I. Fields William Schneider, Jr. Paul G. Kaminski

v t e University of Rochester

Academics	College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Eastman School of Music Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development School of Medicine and Dentistry School of Nursing William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration The Institute of Optics

Campuses and Locations	River Campus University of Rochester Medical Center Eastman Campus South Campus Rush Rhees Library Memorial Art Gallery George Eastman House Eastman Theatre Sibley Music Library University of Rochester Arboretum Other Properties

Research Facilities	C. E. K. Mees Observatory Laboratory for Laser Energetics University of Rochester Medical Center

Authority control	VIAF: 71474714 ISNI: 0000 0001 1668 7685 BNF: cb12392116z

Persondata
Name	Sproull, Robert L.
Alternative names
Short description	American academic
Date of birth	1918-08-16
Place of birth
Date of death
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