Art Hobson: Robert A. Millikan Award
Art Hobson had originally hoped to be a professional jazz musician. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1955 from the University of North Texas, Denton, where he played trombone with the renowned One O’Clock Lab Band. After a two-year stint with Army bands, he went to New York City looking for steady employment as a musician and quickly decided he’d be better off switching to a different field. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Kansas State University in 1964 and joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas where he taught for and retired in 1999. He still rides his bicycle to his "ivory tower" on the campus every day.
He won his college’s Master Teacher Award in 1989. He served for nine years as editor of the quarterly newsletter Physics and Society and was elected a Fellow...
