Biography:

Physicist; university professor. Born– November 26, 1913, Ottawa, Kan. Parents–Jonathan and Lettie Young Ikenberry. Married–Janice Turnipseed, 3 June 1953. Education– University of Ottawa, Kansas, B.A., 1936; University of Kansas, M.A., 1938; Louisiana State University, Ph.D., 1950. U. S. Navy, WWII. Taught at Louisiana State University, 1946-1950, and at Auburn University, 1950-1975. Visiting professor at Johns Hopkins, 1975-79. Published extensively in scholarly journals; lectured at many universities. Member; American Mathematical Society; American Physics Society; Italian Society of Physics; Society for Natural Philosophy.  Awarded the status of professor emeritus on his retirement at Auburn. Died January 14, 2007.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 1982.

Publication(s):

Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians and Physicists. New York; Oxford University Press, 1962.