Faculty

The number of full-time faculty members in the department has fluctuated between six and seven since 1968. With 14 undergraduate courses and one or two graduate courses, along with one individual on sabbatical in many years, additional teaching help has been needed for most of the years of the departmental operation. These additional appointments took the form of sessional lectures and /or research associates. The individuals were Michael Cowan (1969-1973), Nan-Sang Ho (1978-1979), Per Anderson (1980-1981), Neil McKay (1984-1986), Henry Zaleski (1989-1992), Minette Mohan (1993-1994, Sadhana Sharma (1993-1994), Guy Quirion (1994-1998), Gerald Moran (1999) and Mesfin Woldeyohannes (2001-2002). We have also relied on help from other departments. Stuart Rothstein (Department of Chemistry) has taught Quantum Mechanics 3P70 and Frank Fueten (Earth Sciences ) has taught the planetary portion of the Astronomy 1F00 course in recent years.

What follows is a summary of the hiring of the departmental faculty members. For details on dates of all faculty, staff, research associates and sessional lecturers see Appendix 2. For additional information on faculty and staff, see Appendix 3.

1965

Frans Koffyberg was hired in the Department of Chemistry as an Associate Professor of Chemistry.

1966

Eugene Cherniak (Head of Chemistry) hired John Black as a Lecturer in Physics. (A standard practice if someone was hired whose Ph.D. was being completed.)

1967

John Black completed his Ph.D. and was appointed as Assistant Professor of Physics (1967-2001). The same year Frans Koffyberg (1965-1993) was appointed Associate Professor of Physics and three new appointments were made, David Lepard (1967-1982), John A. Moore (1967-1993), and Ramesh Shukla (1967-2001.)

1968

Colin Plint (1968-1991) was hired as Professor and Chair of the Physics Department. Unfortunately, for the department, the University recognized his strong organizational skills, and he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science in 1969 leaving a vacancy in the department chair.

1969

Colin Plint's replacement as head of the department was Geoffrey Kidson. He left the department in 1979.

1971

Roger Cowley joined the department as a sabbatical replacement.

1976

Colin Plint returned to teaching in the department.

 

Figure 3: The Physics Department in the spring of 1977

1978

Roger Cowley left the department. (He took a sabbatical 1977-78 before leaving.)

1982

Dave Lepard left the department.

1983

Bozidar Mitrovic (1983- ) joined the department. That same year Frans Koffyberg suffered a heart attack and went on disability leave.

1984

Feri Razavi (1984-) joined the department.

1985

Frans Koffyberg returns from disability leave.

1988

Shyamal Bose (1988-) joined the department.

 

Figure 4: The Physics Department in the spring of 1989

1991

Colin Plint retired and that year Edward Sternin (1991-) joined the department.

1993

John Moore took early retirement from the department. Frans Koffyberg formally left the department on disability leave.

1994

Maureen Reedyk (1994-) joined the department. She began her appointment with a WFA and 5 years later became a regular faculty member. In 2001 she received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research.

 

Figure 5: The Physics Department in the spring of 1998 (top) and 1999 (bottom)

2001

John Black retired and David Crandles (2001-) joined the department. That same year Ramesh Shukla took early retirement from the department.