“Driven by curiosity from a young age, H. Richard Crane went on to become a pioneering physicist whose work influenced generations of scientists and students.”  This biographical memoir by Jens C. Zorn offers a deeper look into his life and legacy.
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When I was a boy in Turlock, California (around 1920) I started taking violin lessons from a Hungarian named Anton Ruby. He was the organist at the local movie theater. In those days the silent movies were accompanied by piano or organ music.
Crane Family and relatives. 8mm silent movies from 1930 through 1950. Taken in Ann Arbor Michigan and various places in California with relatives.
While I was a student at Cal Tech working on my PhD in nuclear physics in the early 1930’s, I studied under many well-known scientists including Robert Millikan (Nobel Prize in 1923 for his study of the elementary electronic charge and the photoelectric effect); and J. Robert Oppenheimer, who, in the early days, taught us the theoretical implications of the results of our research projects.
Those of us who lived in the Faculty Club at the Athenaeum took our meals there in the dining room. At lunch-time one of the things everyone did was sit with other people and move around. One of the people I had lunch with as a graduate student on occasion was Edwin Hubble. Another would have been Albert Einstein, and most of the other visiting and resident professors.
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Prom party, May 1959 at home on Avon Road.
Look Magazine photographer Stanley Kubrick, took this picture of University of Michigan physicist Horace Richard Crane (November 4, 1907 – April 19, 2007) on February 14,1949. Crane was the first to measure the magnetic moment of free electrons and the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron (a particle accelerator).
