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Name
  
Henry Foley


Died
  
August 14, 1982, New York, United States

Education
  
University of Michigan (1942)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Henry Michael Foley (1917–1982) was an American experimental physicist.

He was a professor and a leading physicist at Columbia University, later serving as chairman of the physics department. In 1948, Polykarp Kusch, working with Henry Foley, discovered the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron. He served on the JASON Defense Advisory Group, an independent group of scientists which advises the United States Government on matters of science and technology. He also served on the MX Missile Basing advisory panel.

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Henry M. Foley Wikipedia