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Department of Physics
Timeline Events List:
| 1880 | Dr. Albert A Michelson joined Case as professor of physics |
| 1881 | Dr. Albert Michaelson built the first model of his interferometer in Berlin |
| 1882 | Dr. Albert Michaelson began teaching at the Case Homestead |
| 1884 | Dr. Albert Michaelson became the head of the department |
| 1885 | The Physics laboratory moved to the new Case Main building |
| 1885 | Dr. Albert Michaelson began collaboration with Edward W. Morley of the Western Reserve University in Physics Laboratory |
| 1889 | Dr. Harry F. Reid became head of the department |
| 1891 | Dr. Dayton C. Miller joined the faculty |
| 1893 | Dr. Harry Reid resigned and the Reid Prize in Physics was established after his absence |
| 1894 | Thomas Griswold was the first recipient of the Reid Prize |
| 1895 | Dr. Dayton Miller became department head |
| 1900 | First Master of Science in Physics was awarded to Harry W. Springsteen |
| 1902 | Harry W. Springsteen became the first full time instructor in the department |
| 1907 | Dr. Dayton Miller and Charles D. Hodgeman instructed a course in Photography |
| 1910 | First Bachelor of Science in Physics was awarded to E.G. Clark |
| 1915 | a United States Weather Bureau station was installed in the Physics laboratory with a complete outfit of meteorological instruments on the roof of the building. Lectures were given to students in general physics by Dr. W.H. Alexander, official in charge of the Cleveland U.S. Weather Bureau station |
| 1917 | Dr. Dayton Miller aided US Government in WWI research on sound and shell shock |
| 1922 | Mr. John R. Martin offered a course on the Theory of Radio Communication |
| 1922 | Dr. Christian Nusbaum offered X-Ray and Crystal Structures courses |
| 1925 | The Physics department developed a Radio Receiving Station |
| 1932 | The Lambda Club was established for students specializing in Physics |
| 1933 | Physics department began offering new courses in Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, Harmonic Analysis, Electronic Vacuum Tubes, General Spectroscopy, Radiation, and Quantum Theory |
| 1933 | Jean Fillmore was the first departmental secretary and first female joining the department |
| 1934 | Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard Observatory gave a public lecture in Severance Hall "Evolution Among the Stars" |
| 1937 | Dr. Dayton Miller was honored by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia as lecturer on "The Nature or Electricity" |
| 1937 | Dr. Dayton Miller was elected Vice President of the Section of Physics and Astronomy, National Academy of Science |
| 1937 | Dr. Dayton Miller published "Sound waves, their shape and speed" |
| 1937 | Robert Shakeland designed and built an electron refraction camera |
| 1938 | A 20 foot tower was built on the roof of the physics building to study lightning photography |
| 1939 | Dr. Dayton Miller's Franklin Institute lectures were published by Macmillan as "Sparks, Lightening, Cosmic Rays" |
| 1940 | Dr. Robert S. Shankland became department head and Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics |
| 1941 | Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company establishes a fellowship in electron diffraction studies of bearing surfaces |
| 1941 | Dr. Dayton C. Miller passed away and the Dr. Dayton C. Miller Research Fellowship was established in his honor |
| 1942 | Robert Shankland serves on the National Defense Research Commission in NYC |
| 1942 | The Physics department did consulting work with the Ohio Public Service Company and the B.F. Goodrich Company |
| 1945 | The General Electric fellowship was established for high school teachers |
| 1945 | Cleveland Physics Society was organized by Dr. Leonard Olsen |
| 1946 | Program of Nuclear Physics began developing |
| 1949 | Earl Gregg received the first Doctor of Philosophy in Physics |
| 1950 | Dr. Dayton C. Miller Prize was established by Herbert Erf |
| 1951 | The former Lambda Club was changed to the Student Chapter of the American Institute of Physics |
| 1951 | The Brush Development Company established the Charles F. Brush Scholarship for physics seniors |
| 1953 | Department received a grant of $20,000 from the National Carbon Company to support research in Solid State Physics. |
| 1956 | Board of Trustees approved plans for additional space. This included an addition to the Rockefeller Physics Laboratory, The Strosacker Auditorium, a library and classroom building, revision and expansion of the Bingham Laboratory, and a revision and expansion of the Rockefeller Metallurgy Laboratory. |
| 1957 | Rockefeller Physics Building addition was completed |
| 1958 | Dr. Leonard Olsen was elected president of the American Association of Physics Teachers |
| 1959 | Marshall Crouch served as the Scientific Attache at the American Embassy in Tokyo, Japan |
| 1959 | Dr. Frederick Reines became department head |