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Professor of physics, University of Washington

Edwin Albrecht Uehling was born in Wisconsin in 1901, he died 1985. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1925, M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1931 and his Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1932. Then he studied with Werner Heisenberg at the Leipzig Institute of Physics from 1933-1934. From 1934-1936 he was a National Research Council Fellow at the University of California and California Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1936 and remained until 1941. During 1941-1943 he was a member of the research staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University from 1943-1944. Between 1944-1945 he was the director of operations, Office of Scientific Research and Development. He returned to University of Washington in 1945. His work in theoretical physics specialized in statistical mechanics, positron theory, magnetic moments, and nuclear induction.