Bascom Sine Deaver Jr. (born August 16, 1930, in Macon, Georgia)[1] is a retired American physicist known for his research into superconductor applications, and a professor and assistant chairman for undergraduate studies of the physics department at the University of Virginia.
[2] As a professor, Deaver has overseen 26 Ph.D. students, developed two undergraduate concentrations in optics and computational physics, and created a B.A.
degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952, and his masters at Washington University in St. Louis in 1954.
Deaver began his career as a professor at the University of Virginia in 1965, having completed in 1962 his PhD at Stanford University, under the supervision of William M. Fairbank, with thesis Experimental evidence for quantized magnetic flux in superconducting cylinders.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow between 1966 and 1968.