Robert Adair

• Name — Robert Adair • Born — 14 August 1924 • Birthplace — Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S. • Died — 28 September 2020 • Place of death — Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. • Field — Physics • Workplaces — University of Wisconsin Brookhaven National Laboratory Yale University • Education — University of Wisconsin • Spouse — Eleanor Adair (physiologist) Robert Kemp Adair (August 14, 1924 – September 28, 2020) was an American physicist. He latterly held the position of Sterling Professor Emeritus of physics at Yale University.

Adair served in the European theatre after volunteering for World War II and was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze star. After achieving a doctorate in experimental nuclear physics at the University of Wisconsin he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Long Island. In 1959 he joined the faculty at Yale, serving as chair of the Department of Physics and director of the Division of Physical Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976 where he served as Chairman of the Physics Section 1986-1989 and Chairman of the Class of Physical Sciences 1991–1994. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997, after a distinguished career in, among many other subfields of physics, weak-interaction (Kaon) physics at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at BNL. Later, in his retirement, he studied the effects of extremely low frequency (weak) electromagnetic fields on human health and among other responsibilities, served on the Committee of the American Physical Society (APS) established to investigate the APS Statement on Global Warming in 2007, which was not without its own internal controversy. He died in September 2020 at the age of 96.

Robert Adair is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation nuclear physicist. Recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart.