James Paul Wesley

James Paul Wesley (28 July 1921 in St. Louis, Missouri – 20 January 2007 in Germany) was an American multidisciplinary theoretical physicist known for his study of quantum theory, the properties of light, mathematical physics and advocacy for absolute space-time. He received his Masters and Doctorate degree from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and was a professor at the University of Missouri, Rolla for 10 years. During his career he authored and co-authored 11 books and has published over 100 scientific papers. His contribution to physics are the concepts of Wesley Gravitation and having co-authored a paper that first proposed a toroidal ring model for the electron.

While still in the US he held multiple research physicist positions over the years, and most notably was a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and a Fellow at the Center Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University, California. In addition to his contributions to academia he assisted the US government through contract work for the Department of Energy (DOE), Bureau of Ships, NASA, and the Department of Commerce (DOC).

Biography

Parents and siblings

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Fay and Edgar Family Portrait with children from the left: Phyllis, Louis, Paul, Medford, Elaine;

James Paul Wesley was born to the parents of Edgar Bruce Wesley (1891–1980) and Nannie Fay Wesley (1893–1969) and grew up in a large family with five other siblings Silas Medford, Phyllis, Louis, Elaine, and John Wesley. His dad was a professor, academic, and educator in the social sciences field and himself has authored or co-authored many books including his "Too Short the Days" 1966 his autobiography, and many academic works with two mentioned here "Teaching social studies in elementary schools", and "NEA: the first hundred years : the building of the teaching profession".

Marriages

He had eight children during his life to four wives. He married Margaret Ellen Martin, June 1943 and had one child and divorced in 1952; He married Dorothy Ree Casey, August 1952 and had three children and divorced in 1963; He married Michelle, June l963, and had one child and divorced in 1967; He got married one last time with Gabriele Beate Modest, July 30, 1975 and had three children until death separated them.

Hobbies and special interests

In addition to scientific work James Paul Wesley has devoted his free time to painting and over the years, more than 350 oil paintings emerged on various topics, including photos of his wife and children and self-portraits. As part of the tenth and the twelfth Blumberger art exhibition these oil paintings could be seen of him for the first time. He also enjoyed hiking, playing the harmonica, and was trained and capable piano player.

Death and burial

He died, January 20, 2007, of old age in Blumberg Germany and was cremated and buried anonymously at the Waldfriedhof in Schaffhausen Switzerland.

Education

Wesley attended Washburn High School in Minneapolis, 1939. He got his BA from the University of Minnestory in 1943. He finished his Masters at UCLA in 1949 and his PhD in Physics in 1952.

He continued his post graduate work in San Diego at the University of California, Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography under the direction of Professor Carl Eckart. Here with his fellow researcher Alfredo Baños he completed his post graduate academic and research work. The culmination of which where a research paper published in September 1953 of Part I on "The Horizontal Electric Dipole in a Conducting Half-Space" under sponsored contract by the Bureau of Ships, Contract NObsr – 43356 and a follow-on paper published in August 1954 of Part II on "The Horizontal Electric Dipole in a Conducting Half-Space, II" under direction of Sir Charles Wright, and Professor L. B. Slichter, Director of the Institute of Geophysics, Los Angeles.

Career

1940–1961

From 1943–50 he held a position as professor of physics at the University of Idaho |University of Idaho, Moscow campus]]. From 1953–56 he was a research geophysicist Newmont Exploration, Ltd., Jerome, Arizona, 1955–56. From 1956 to 1961 he worked as a research physicist in Berkley at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory "Rad Lab" of the University of California. His first work at the Rad lab, published in 1959, was Shielding Against Magnetic Radiation Loss from A Hot Plasma. In April 2, 1961 he published the results of his research of "Oscillating Vertical Magnetic Dipole Above a Conducting Half-Space" under Contract No. W-7405-eng-48 of the DOC and auspices of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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1961–1974

In 1961–1962 he held a Fellowship position a the The Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, and a concurrent Special Fellowship at the National Institutes of HealthNational Institutes of Health (NIH); From 1962 to 1963 he was a research physicist at the University of Denver Research Institute and there wrote his book on Ecophysics The Application of Physics to Ecology (Melpar, Inc., Falls Church, Virginia, 1963, Roland F. Beers, Inc., Alexandria, 1964.) From 1965 to 1966 he worked under a year's grant from NASA to estimate the likelihood of life existing in the solar system. Under the grant he published the paper Thermodynamic estimate of the likelihood of life in the solar system. Between 1963 to 1974 he worked as a professor in physics a the University Missouri, Rolla and went on a Sabbatical at I. Prigogine at the University Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium in 1971.

1974–2007

Consultant on quantum theory, space-time physics, others Berlin and Blumberg, Germany. Author, co-author and editor of theoretical scientific works, contributor to over 100 articles to professional journals.

Views

Based on the short biography by Marquis Who's Who in the World James Paul Wesley's religious views are considered to be Unitarian Universalist. During the cold war era he was openly opposed to developing and using nuclear weapons technology to maintain the peace with Russia, which resulted in the loss of employment and other harassment.

Awards, honors, and memberships

Memberships

Member American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Honors

Named as a Research fellow by the American National Bureau Standards in 1950.

Selected bibliography

Wesley published more than 100 papers and wrote numerous books. A selection is given here from among those most frequently cited.

• "Diffusion of seismic energy in the near range", J. Geophys. Res., 70(20), 1965. 5099–5106, doi:10.1029/JZ070i020p05099.
• "Selected topics in advanced fundamental physics." Wesley, 1991.
• "Frequency of wars and geographical opportunity." Journal of Conflict Resolution (1962): 387-389.
• "Background radiation as the cause of fatal congenital malformation." International journal of radiation biology 2.1 (1960): 97-118.
• Banos Jr, Alfredo, and James Paul Wesley. "The horizontal electric dipole in a conducting half-space." Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1953). Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d5419sv
• "Response of dyke to oscillating dipole." Geophysics 23.1 (1958): 128-133.
• "Classical Quantum Theory". Selbstverl. Wesley, 1996.
• "Causal quantum theory." Benjamin, 1983.
• Shielding Against Magnetic Radiation Loss from A Hot PlasmaOak Ridge, Tenn. : distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1959. 8 p.
• "Oscillating Vertical Magnetic Dipole Above a Conducting Half-Space" California. Univ., Livermore. Lawrence Radiation Lab. 1961 [1]

selected topics Scientific Physics Cover Page.

• selected topics Scientific Physics

selected topics in ADVANCED FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS Cover Page.

• Selected Topics in Advanced Fundamental Physics. Blumberg, West Germany, Benjamin Wesley,1991. ISBN 9783980094245

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Causal Quantum Theory Cover Page.

• Causal quantum theory, Blumberg, West Germany, Benjamin Wesley, 1983. ISBN 3-9800942-0-0
• Ecophysics the Application of Physics to Ecology Blumberg Germany, re-published by Benjamin Wesley 1997 – ISBN 3-9800942-6-X (originally published in 1974 by Charles C Thomas Springfield Illinois);

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ECOPYSICS the application of physics to ecology

External links

• James Paul Wesley on Facebook
• James Paul Wesley on Microsoft Academic Research

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