Physics Department
Dr. Thomas R. Greenlee
Professor of Physics
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Dr. Greenlee received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the California Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation was in experimental atomic spectroscopy applied to the determination of the solar abundance of manganese. Since coming to Bethel he has had grants from 3M for laser interferometry to measure roughness of surfaces and temperatures of gases. In 1993 and 1994, Dr. Greenlee was awarded a summer research fellowship in temperature measurement by infrared pyrometry at NASA--Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. His other professional interests are connections between science and Christianity and chaos theory. He is Associate Director of NASA's Minnesota Space Grant Consortium and served three years on the Editorial Board of Physics Resource Letters of the American Journal of Physics and six years as secretary of the Minnesota Area Association of Physics Teachers. In 2005 Dr. Greenlee also gave three presentations at Wuhan University in China on relativity, quantum mechanics, and possible implications for Christianity. |
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