James E. Boyd (scientist)
James Emory Jim Boyd was an American physicist, mathematician, and academic administrator. He was director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1957 to 1961, president of West Georgia College from 1961 to 1971, and acting president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1971 to 1972.
Boyd was born to Emory Fortson and Rosa Lee Boyd on July 18, 1906 in Tignall, Georgia, a small town near the eastern border of the state of Georgia. He had two brothers, John and Ellis, and a sister, Sophia. In 1927, he received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Georgia, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. In 1928, he received a Master of Arts in mathematics from Duke University. From 1928 to 1930, Boyd was an instructor of physics at the University of Georgia. He entered graduate school at Yale University in 1930, and was a graduate assistant there from 19301931 and a Loomis Fellow from 19311933. He received his PhD in physics from Yale in 1933, with a thesis entitled Scattering of XRays by ColdWorked and by Annealed Beryllium. In his thesis, Boyd described the effects of reflecting radiation through samples of powdered, coldworked and annealed beryllium with differing particle sizes. The experiment showed that beryllium crystals are rath
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