Edward H. Kerner Professional Papers

Edward Haskell Kerner, graduated from De Witt Clinton High School in New York City in 1940. He earned a B.A., from Columbia College in 1943 and worked as a physicist on the Manhattan Project, Dayton, Ohio, 1944-1945. He was concerned peaceful uses for nuclear energy and patented a nuclear engine to power internal combustion-type engines. He received his Ph.D., from Cornell University, 1950, and taught at Wayne University, Iowa State College, and the University of Buffalo before becoming a professor at the University of Delaware where he taught for 37 years.