Arthur F. Kip

Arthur Frederic Kip was an American experimental physicist, specializing in solid-state physics. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1958–1959.

Biography

After secondary education in San Diego, Kip matriculated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with A.B. in 1935 and Ph.D. in 1939. His doctoral advisor was Leonard B. Loeb.
In the UC Berkeley physics department, Kip was a professor from 1951 to 1976, when he retired as professor emeritus. In the summer of 1951, he brought a considerable amount of equipment and used his expertise in electron spin resonance to set up a laboratory with the help of Alan M. Portis and Thomas Griswold. The three of them built most of their own equipment. Kip's laboratory and research group used microwave resonance techniques to investigate solid-state physics. He was the author or co-author of almost 100 papers. He was for the academic year 1958–1959 a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK and for the academic year 1962–1963 a Miller Institute Fellow at Berkeley.
He wrote a successful introductory college textbook Fundamentals of Electricity and Magnetism. His doctoral students include Peter Demos, George Feher, Donald N. Langenberg, and Alan M. Portis.
Upon his death, Kip was survived by his widow, a daughter, a son, and two grandchildren.