Hitting a home run with his renowned book, The Physics of Baseball, Dr. Robert Kemp Adair's meritorious career spanning half a century is filled with accomplishments and accolades.

By 1951, Dr. Adair earned three graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin (UW), which in 1994, conferred an honorary doctorate in physics. His career includes teaching at UW, serving as a physicist and later as Associate Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and as physicist to the National Baseball League. In 1959, he joined the faculty at Yale University, working his way through the academic ranks in such positions as Department Chairman and Director of the Division of Physical Sciences, to his current status as Sterling Professor Emeritus of Physics.

In addition to publishing such books as Strange Particles, Concepts in Physics, and The Great Design, Dr. Adair served as an editor of Physical Review, and Physical Review Letters. He has enjoyed fellowships from Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, Sloane Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society, to which he later served as Chairman of the Division of Particles and Fields. Dr. Adair is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has chaired the Physics Section and the Class of Physical Sciences.

From 1943-1946, Dr. Adair served his country in the United States Army infantry in Germany during World War II, earning a Bronze Star Medal and a Purple Heart Medal after he was shot in the head and right arm. While his wounds healed, his recovery would still preclude him from participating in baseball, despite the tremendous academic influence he has lent America's pastime.

Dr. Adair is married to Eleanor Reed and has three children (one deceased).