Frank Leigh Robeson
(1884-1974)
Student 1901-1904
Faculty Member 1904-1954
Head, Department of Physics 1923-1954
As a student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (now Virgnia Tech), Frank Leigh Robeson helped draw plans for many campus buildings and faculty houses. During half a century of employment with the college, he taught mathematics, mechanical engineering, and physics and wrote the leading physics textbook of the time. He was a fellow in the American Academy of Science.
Robeson Hall completed in 1960
Marker can be reached from West Campus Drive north of Drillfield Drive.
Courtesy hmdb.org
