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{{Short description|American physicist}}
'''Homer Dupre Hagstrum''' (March 11, 1915 – September 7, 1994) was an American physicist who specialized in [[surface physics]].<ref name="NAP">[http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10830&page=47 National Academies Press:Biographical Memoirs, V.83, Homer Dupre Hagstrum]</ref><ref name="AIP">{{cite web|url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11507010.html|title=Homer D. Hagstrum|publisher=American Institute of Physics|access-date=24 September 2020}} </ref>
Born in St Paul, Minnesota he gained a BA degree in 1936, an MS in 1939 and a PhD in physics in 1940 at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He then worked for [[Bell Labs]], Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he was a research physicist from 1940 to 1954, head of Surface Physics Research from 1954 to 1978 and Research Physicist in Surface Physics from 1978 to 1985. <ref name=AIP/> After 1946 Homer specialized in surface physics which was an unknown sub-field of physics at that time.  He developed a metal multipurpose vacuum chamber in 1961 that is a model for many surface physics scientists today.
In 1942 he and John R Pearce traveled to England to meet with British scientists working on RADAR. During this meeting Pearce (who wrote Science fiction stories) arranged a meeting with H. G. Wells, an internationally known science fiction writer. Pearce and Hagstrum also met with Rudy Kompfner during this trip.
Hagstrum was elected a [[Fellow of the American Physical Society]] in 1949 <ref> {{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=H&year=1987&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=APS|access-date=24 September 2020}} </ref>  and a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1976.<ref name="NAP"/><ref name="AIP"/> He was chairman of Division of Electron and Atomic Physics of the [[American Physical Society]] in 1957,<ref name="AIP"/>
He was a recipient of the [[Medard W. Welch Award]] in 1974 and the [[Davisson–Germer Prize]] in 1975.<ref name="AIP"/><!--  several scientists that Hagstrum hired also won this award: D. E. Aspnes, M. J. Cardillo] -->
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