astronomy

Victor E. Hall

Victor E. Hall is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Victor E. Hall rather than just read about it. In short: Victor Ernest Hall (February 11, 1901 – July 23, 1981) was a Canadian scientist who researched physiology. His teaching and research career was spent at Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles.

Key takeaways

Victor E. Hall belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
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Reproduce the core statement of Victor E. Hall from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Victor Ernest Hall (February 11, 1901 – July 23, 1981) was a Canadian scientist who researched physiology. His teaching and research career was spent at Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles. He was executive editor of the Handbook of Physiology and long-time editor of the peer-reviewed journal the Annual Review of Physiology.

Early life and education Victor E. Hall was born on February 11, 1901, in Victoria, British Columbia to parents Ernest Amos Hall, a physician, and Mary Louisa Hall née Fox. He was afflicted by polio as a child; he relied on crutches to stand and walk. He attended the Victoria Normal School for one year and briefly attended University of California, Berkeley before transferring to Stanford University. He graduated from Stanford with his undergraduate degree in 1922, his master's degree in physiology in 1925, and his Doctor of Medicine in 1928.

Career After graduating with his Doctor of Medicine, Hall remained at Stanford to teach in the physiology department, becoming a full professor in 1941. He had research appointments at Harvard in 1936 and 1937, then at Cornell in 1937 and 1938. Though outside his research area, he had an interest in nuclear weapons. In 1945, he gave presentations to the public about the impact of the discovery of nuclear weapons and the possible civilian applications of nuclear technology. While at Stanford, one of his areas of research was the metabolic aspects of thermoregulation. He left Stanford in 1951 to teach at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1964, he became the founding director of UCLA's Brain Information Service; he remained co-director after his retirement from UCLA in 1968, keeping the position until 1972. When the Annual Review of Physiology was founded in 1938, creator J. Murray Luck asked Hall to be an associate editor. When Murray retired from the editor position in 1947, Hall succeeded him. For more than twenty years (1947–1971), Hall was the editor of the Annual Review of Physiology. He was also the executive editor of the Handbook of Physiology, published by the American Physiological Society.

Personal life and death He married Frances Marie Gould, one of his former students, in September 1940. They had several children. Hall died on July 23, 1981, in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Victor E. Hall

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Victor E. Hall claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Victor E. Hall before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Victor E. Hall ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Victor E. Hall

In research: Victor E. Hall appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Victor E. Hall in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Victor E. Hall is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1901 births, 1981 deaths, 20th-century American people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Victor E. Hall outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Victor E. Hall in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Victor E. Hall matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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