Waterville High School

  Physics Hall of Fame

..This page is dedicated in geneal to the more than 2500 men and women who studied physics at this school since 1970. Featured here are those steadfast individuals who used that experience as a springboard to higher levels of study on their way to a doctoral dissertation. We would like to celebrate their work by linking to professional websites that they have created or to which they have made contributions. Links from these pages to physics 2K2 will in a small but still significant way tie today's scholars to previous generations of Waterville High School physicists.

D George Bernhardt IV -- W.H.S. 1975
   B.S. U.S.Air Force Academy
M.S.
Ph.D University of Maine
Dissertation
Today:Research Scientist
........... Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology

/////////// University of Maine
email:
georgeb@maine.edu

Dr. Anne Marie (Bechard) Thibodeau - W.H.S. 1981
 

B.A. Colby College
PhD University of Maine

Dissertation: Numerical Model of the Transient Effects of a Heat of Fusion Reservoir Interacting with Two-Phase Flow

Dr. Michael Kopp - W.H.S. 1981
 

 A. B. Physics at Bowdoin College, 1985

M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Columbia University, 1987

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1992

Dissertation : Understanding interdiffusion and interphase reactions in metallic and intermetallic matrix composites.

Current title: Scientist, Warfare Analysis Department
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Newport, RI 02841

Dr. Lance Benner - W.H.S. 1983

 

 A. B. Physics at Cornell University, 1987

Ph.D Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University,
St. Louis, MO, 1994

Dissertation title: Satellite Capture in the Outer Solar System:
Application to Triton and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Current title: Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
Specialty: Radar imaging of near-Earth asteroids

http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/
or

http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people.cfm?PersonID=313

Dr. James Muzerolle - W.H.S. 1990
   B.S.
M.S.
Ph.D
Dissertation
Today
email
Bucknell University

Dr. Lorie (Lepley) Parks - W.H.S. 1990

 
 B.S. Bucknell University
Medical School -
New England College of Optometry

  Dr. James A. Porter - W.H.S. 1991
   B.S. Colby College
M.S. Cornell University
Ph.D Cornell University

Today:Professor of Physics, Bates College

Dr. Christie Larochelle - W.H.S. 1991
   B.S. Johns Hopkins University
M.S. University of Maine
Ph.D University of Maine
Dissertation
Today Assistant Professor of Physics
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