Kell Hall Memories

Dr. Carl "Rod" Nave - Memories of Kell Hall

In this video, Dr. Rod Nave recalls his earliest memories of Kell Hall, from his arrival at Georgia State in 1968 through the 1990s.

Jeff Nave with magnet

Rod was doing electron spin resonance (ESR) research at this time with Bill Nelson. Since it involved liquid nitrogen, Jeff was interested and went in to the lab with Rod on July 28. He is looking at the powerful magnet used in the research. The…

Jeff Nave pouring nitrogen

Jeff got to pour liquid nitrogen into the sample storage chamber [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Buck Clonts in Kell Hall

Buck Clonts with the Electron Spin Resonance apparatus, 5th floor Kell Hall [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Kell Hall Machine Shop

Dan Witt, Shop Manager and Machinist, in the Physics and Astronomy Shop. Graduate Student Kerry Pullen at bandsaw at left. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Connie Gill in Kell Hall

Connie Gill with Electron Spin Resonance apparatus [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Steve Manson in Kell Hall

Steve Manson presenting the Born Approximation [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Martin Meder in Kell Hall

Martin Meder explaining Feynman diagrams [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Nuclear instrumentation in Kell Hall

Martin Meder with nuclear instrumentation [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Microwave spectrometer in Kell Hall

Rod Nave with microwave spectrometer [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Grad student with nuclear instrumentation

Graduate student with nuclear instrumentation. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Phil Outlaw in Kell Hall

Phil Outlaw with X-ray unit. The X-ray machine is shown with the precession camera mounted. Precession photographs confirmed that we had a single crystal and allowed us to allign crystals of organic solids with respect to their crystallographic…

Joe Hadley and Dick Miller in Kell Hall

Joe Hadley and Dick Miller in Joe's office [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Frank Hsu in Kell Hall

Frank Hsu with nuclear instrumentation in his laboratory [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Physics grad students in Kell Hall

Three graduate students of that time: Doug Garland, Kevin Carpenter and Chuck Antoine. Doug was working with Rod Nave on a Master's thesis project in acoustics. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Gus Petitt in Kell Hall

Gus Petitt getting a little help setting up a piece of nuclear instrumentation. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Hal McAlister in Kell Hall

Hal McAlister with optical bench and electronics - maybe part of an interferometer? His interferometers got a lot bigger! [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Jim Purcell and Martin Meder in Kell Hall

Jim Purcell and Martin Meder at the board in Martin's office. Rod Nave doesn't see how they can make anything out of what's on the board. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Bill Mallard in Kell Hall

Bill Mallard making an explanation to a student. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

Bill Nelson in Kell Hall

Bill Nelson mounting a crystal for ESR studies. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]

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