John S. Toll is a physicist and well-known educational administrator. The word physicist should not be confused with physician, which means medical doctor. ...

He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale in 1944, after which he served in the Navy in World War II. He finished his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton in 1952. This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the eight Ivy League universities, and is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious institutions in the world. ...

He then moved to the University of Maryland, where he became Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1953. During his tenure as Chair, he was responsible for a major increase in size and quality of the department. The physics building at the University of Maryland is named for him. The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UMD or UM, formerly UMCP) is a public coeducational university situated in suburban Maryland just outside Washington, DC. The flagship university of the University System of Maryland, it is commonly referred to as simply the University of Maryland, but the formal...

In 1965 he left to become the first President of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a position he held until 1978. While he was there, SUNY-Stony Brook grew from 1,800 students to 17,000 students. Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU) or the University at Stony Brook (USB), or the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), located in Stony Brook, New York, USA, is one of the premier public universities in the United States with more than 21,000 students enrolled. ...

He then returned to the University of Maryland to become President of the University. At the time, this position put him in charge of five different campuses. When governor Donald Schaefer decided to merge the state's public university's into a single system, Toll was put in charge of the merger. He then became the first Chancellor of the new University System of Maryland. Bob Ehrlich, the 60th and current Governor of Maryland. ... William Donald Schaefer (born November 2, 1921), a member of the United States Democratic Party, has served in public office for 40 years at both the state and local level. ... University System of Maryland The University System of Maryland (USM) is a public corporation and charter school system comprising 13 Maryland institutions of higher education. ...

In 1995, at age 71, he became President of Washington College, a small private liberal arts school. There, he was credited with fixing the school's budget crisis and significantly raising its national profile. Washington College is a private, selective, independent liberal arts college located on a 112 acre (453,000 m²) campus in Chestertown, Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula. ...

As a physicist, Toll is known for his work in dispersion theory and elementary particle physics. In January 2004, he announced that he would leave Washingon College and return to physics research at the University of Maryland. Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. ...

External links

• Biography  (http://www.aip.org/history/historymatters/toll.htm) on the American Institute of Physics website.