John Bragg Chemical Physics Ph.D., Harvard, 1948 Adjunct Associate Professor 1994-2000

John Bragg (1919-2000) was an adjunct faculty member at UNCA from 1994 to 2000. He taught the general-education five-hour physics course and upper-level thermal physics during these years. His former activities included teaching at Cornell, research for the Government, and work at General Electric and the Singer Corporation. Dr. Bragg's career also included innovative development of a consultant firm.

Dr. Bragg worked under Nobel Laureate John H. Van Vleck for his doctoral dissertation at Harvard. He experienced first hand a quantum field theory course under Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger (co-developer of quantum field theory) in the late 1940s. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard, he became the theorist in the Department of Chemistry at Cornell. He was hired by Nobel Laureate Peter Debye. At Cornell, he met Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, who asked Bragg to give a seminar. Dr. Bragg shared personal stories of his interactions with the physicists mentioned above during a very special seminar at UNCA, the semester before his death.