Dr. Elmer Hutchisson was a physicist and educator, and founder of the Journal of Applied Physics.
Elmer Hutchisson (1902-1983) grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Case School of Applied Science (where he studied under Dayton C. Miller), MIT and the University of Minnesota. He later became professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hutchisson served as the American Institute of Physics' second director from 1957 through 1964. Concerned with "scientific illiteracy in an age of science," he established the Center for History of Physics and its Niels Bohr Library, and founded the Journal of Applied Physics, of which he was editor from 1937 through 1953. He died in 1983.
