Presidents of the Late 1950s

Dean Brewster Judd was born in South Hadley Falls, Mass., U.S.A., on 15 November 1900. He attended public schools in Columbus, Ohio, and then Ohio State University, where he received an A.B. in 1922 and an M.A. in 1923. He then completed his Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University. In the summers of 1925 and 1926, he worked as a Munsell research associate at the National Bureau of Standards. In 1927, he became a full-time NBS staff member. By 1947, he was a physicist in colorimetry. He spent his entire career at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) until he retired in 1969. (Even after that, he stayed on as a guest worker for two more years.)