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ACCOMPLISHMENT

Humphreys married Jeanette Mae Raum and had son Richard.

He received the Naval Award for Achievement in Science.
He was involved in the Spectroscopic Program covering the NBS and U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Corona, CA, experiences. He contributed to the inventions that revolutionized the techniques of radiometry and spectrophotometry. Humphreys attended the Rydberg Centennial Conference on Atomic Spectroscopy in 1954 which was the most distinguished group of spectroscopic and atomic physicists that was ever assembled. The group included Niels Bohr . He credits the Corona Lab program with the establishment of the atomic wavelength standard in the infrared. He corresponded with William F. Meggers while in Michigan in 1928. He was awarded the William F. Meggers Award in 1973.



Humphreys is the author of many scientific research articles and books including "First spectra of neon, argon, and xenon 136 in the 1.2-4.0 µm region" written in 1973 while at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

Other works include:
  • T.L.De Bruin, C.J.Humphreys, and W.F.Meggers, J. Res. NBS (U.S.) 11, 409 (1933).

  • "The 29 and 30 electron-system spectra of arsenic and selenium" Curtis J Humphreys, 1928.

  • "Element Ne I" Meggers, W. F., and Humphreys, C. J. 1933, J. Res. N. B. S. 10, 427. 7724-18549, a UMT and RMTsource C.J.Humphreys, J. Res. NBS (U.S.) 22, 19 (1939). C.J.Humphreys, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43, 1027 (1953).

  • "Humphreys Series" Humphreys, C.J., J. Research Natl. Bur. Standards 1953, 50, 1.

  • "Interferometric measurement of wavelengths of infrared atomic emission lines in the extraphotographic region" Applied Optics, 1963. Co-authored Rao, K. Narahari;

  • Curtis J. Humphreys; D.H. Rank, "Wavelength Standards in the Infrared" ,Academic Press, 1966.

  • Humphreys, C. J., & Paul, E. 1970, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 60, 1302.

  • H.H. Li and C.J. Humphreys and J. Opt. Soc. Am. 64 (1974) 1072.

  • C.J. Humphreys, Rep. Prog. Phys. 42 (1979) 122.


He is listed in "World Who's Who in Science" in 1968.


EXTERNAL LINKS

  • Photo of Curtis J. Humphreys

  • [http://www.nist.gov/srd/PDF%20files/jpcrd33.pdf "First spectra of neon, argon, and xenon 136 in the 1.2-4.0 um region"]