Bille Chandler Carlson (1924-2013)

CARLSON, STADLER

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 9/21/2013 at 23:26:00

Obituary From Adams Soderstrum Funeral Home, Story County, Iowa.

Bille Chandler Carlson was born June 27, 1924, in Boston, Massachusetts, and spent his boyhood on the seashore of Cape Cod. He began studies at Harvard College, but joined the U.S. Navy after the onset of World War II and worked on the island of Guam with radar technology, which was novel at the time. After the War, he returned to Harvard and completed Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in physics and mathematics. He then went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed a doctoral degree in physics. After four years in the Physics Department at Princeton, Bille came to the Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University in 1954, where he was a Professor in the Physics and Mathematics Departments, ultimately as a Professor Emeritus.

He is known for having developed in Carlson elliptic integrals, some of which he described in his 1977 book, Special Functions of Applied Mathematics, and in the National Institute of Standards Handbook of Mathematical Functions (2010).

Bille acquired a deep appreciation for the Iowa countryside.

Bille passed away Friday, August 16, 2013 at Green Hills Health Center in Ames at 89 years of age.

He was predeceased by his wife, Louise W. Carlson, in 1981, and is survived by his companion, Jody Stadler, two children, Marian Carlson and John Carlson, and four grandchildren.

The body has been cremated and no services are planned.

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