Look Magazine photographer Stanley Kubrick, took this picture of University of Michigan physicist Horace Richard Crane (November 4, 1907 – April 19, 2007) on February 14,1949. Crane was the first to measure the magnetic moment of free electrons and the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron (a particle accelerator). The National Academy of Sciences called Crane “an extraordinary physicist”.The University of Michigan called him “one of the most distinguished experimental physicists of the 20th century” Crane was a chairman of the department of physics and a professor of physics at the University of Michigan. Crane was a supporter of higher education all his life. He and his wife donated money and time to Washtenaw Community College, with a building being named after them. Their effort was to encourage making higher education accessible to all the residents in the county. He was also a driving force and leading developer of exhibits for the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. In his later years, Crane often spoke of having enjoyed a long life in an era when there was so much to discover. He had time to work in many fields of science, but he also had time to play the violin, go fishing, raise orchids, paint, and enjoy friends and family. An icon of Michigan physics, Dick Crane showed his many friends and colleagues how a balanced life in science could be lived. Read the full story at:

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