Robert S. Shankland ‘29

Robert S. Shankland ‘29 (d) was a physics major and later a professor of physics at the Case School of Applied Science/Case Institute of Technology for more than 40 years. The Robert S. Shankland ‘29 Memorial Fund for Physics was established by friends of Robert Shankland in 1980 to support laboratory equipment for the department of Physics. Shankland received the CAA Meritorious Service Award in 1957 and the Gold Medal Award in 1969. In the mid-fifties, Shankland was granted the opportunity to conduct personal scientific interviews with Albert Einstein in which Einstein provided new current and retrospective views of his works on relativity and on the origins of the ideas.