Louis E. Wright is a nuclear theorist with special interest in the use of
electromagnetic probes to investigate the atomic nucleus and the
nucleon. A native of Louisiana, he received his B.S. degree from LSU and
earned a Ph.D. from Duke University. Wright joined the faculty of
Ohio University in 1970 and served as department Chair from 1990-97 and 1999-2005.
Wright held a Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at Frankfurt during 1968-69 (where he met and married his wife Karin) and again at Mainz during 1981-82. He also served as the second visiting professor from Ohio University at Chubu University in Japan. Wright's research has resulted in his supervision of 13 doctoral dissertations.
In 2005, he began ``early retirement''; he now teaches one academic quarter per year and currently is teaching one quarter of the graduate Electrodynamics course and participating in the tutorial program.
