Father: William
Henry Carter
Mother: Fannie
Augusta Simpson
Family 1: Lynda
Lee Craft
_Charles Carter ________________
_James Watkins Carter _______|_Feriba Thurin Veazey __________
_William Henry Carter ____________|
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|_Julia Augusta Disque Daughdrill _|
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|_Martha Elizabeth Whitlock __|_Lucinda Bridges _______________
He was very interested in playing the cello in grade school. He majored in Electrical Engineering in college out of respect for his Father and his teachings. He found that he was better suited to science and research than engineering and went on to graduate school to study physics. In graduate school he designed & built the first laser in the Southwest U.S. and spent the rest of his life doing theoretical physics and learning about the statistical properties of light. After college he served for three years as an Army Officer assigned as a Program Manager for the Office of Research & Development at the CIA. After discharge, he served a year as a post doctoral (Research Assistant) with Emil Wolf in the Physics Department of the University of Rochester. After leaving Rochester he returned to Washington, DC to work for the Naval Research Laboratory doing investigator initiated basic research. This work is published in more than 80 papers in the scientific literature (see J. Opt. Soc. Am., IEEE journals, et al.). He also taught night school for George Washington University and Johns Hopkins during this time. He had a two year sabbatical at the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory in 1991-92, retired from the Navy in 1993, and worked, part time as the Program Director for Quantum Electronics, Waves , & Beams at the National Science Foundation for one year.
He was married to his high school sweetheart (dated from 1957) during their senior year in college. They had two children but were divorced in 1979 after a bitter time. The ex-wife took the children to Houston, TX and married at least six more times. He had very little contact with his family thereafter until the children were grown.
After the divorce he took up the cello again and played with the Alexandria Symphony and Georgetown Symphony for about 10 years in the 1980's and again for the Georgetown Symphony in the late 1990's.
He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Technology (1992-2000), in the East (1993-200), in the World (1994-2000) and in America (2000). This reads:
Carter, William Harold, physicist, researcher, electrical engineer; b. Houston, Nov. 17, 1938; s. William Henry and Fannie (Augusta) C.; children: William Harold Jr., Elizabeth Lee. BSEE, U. TX 1962, MSEE, 1963, Ph.D. 1966. Rsch. asst. U. Tex., Austin, 1962-66, Rsch. assoc. U. Rochester, NY., 1969-70; rsch. physicist Naval Research Lab., Washington, 1971-93; prof. U. Nebr., Lincoln, 1981-82; instr. Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore., 1989-1993; program dir. NSF, Arlington, VA., 1993-1994; vis. scientist applied physics lab. Johns Hopkins U., Columbia, MD. 1991-92. Contbr. numerous articles to profl. jours. Cellist Alexandria (VA) Symphony, 1979-88, Georgetown Symphony, 1981-. Capt. U. S. Army, 1967-69. Fellow Optical Soc. Am., Internat. Soc. for Optical Engring. (chmn. tech. coun. 1980-82, chmn. pub. com. 1981-83, chmn. fellows com. 1986); mem. IEEE (sr., conf. chmn. 1988), Am. Phy. Soc., Cosmos Club. Achievements include co-discovery of the quasi-homogeneous source model; research in coherence, in applications of speckle phenomena, and in processing of images and data from optical sensors.
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Father: Billie
Green Lightsey
Mother: Anna Sue
Moye
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|_Augusta Steele Carter _|_Feriba Thurin Veazey _
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