Black and white photograph of the F. A. Heitman house. William Ward Watkin was the supervising architect for the construction of the Rice Institute, and he founded the Department of Architecture for the Institute. He had a distinguished career as an architect in private practice as well, and his papers include materials on his family life, private ...

Dr. F. Curtis Michel joined the faculty of the Space Science and Physics Department at Rice University in 1963. He became one of the first scientist-astronauts for NASA from 1965-1969. He then returned to Rice in 1969 and served for five years as the Department Chairman (1974-1979). He was named the Andrew Hays Buchanan Professor of Astrophysics at ...

F. Lovell Bixby taught Psychology at the Rice Institute in 1927.