Everly John "Jack" Workman (July 2, 1899, Loudonville, Ohio – December 27, 1982, Santa Barbara, California) was an American atmospheric physicist, known for the Workman-Reynolds effect,[1] [2] discovered in 1950[3] by him and his colleague Stephen E. Reynolds, State Engineer of New Mexico from 1955 to 1990.
[6] As an NRC Fellow, during the years from 1930 to 1933 he worked at the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and then at Caltech in Pasadena.
[7] He presided over the construction of the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research on a site on South Baldy[10] at an altitude of 3240 meters in the Magdalena Mountains.
[10] In 1965 he retired from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology[11] in order to help establish the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo's Cloud Physics Laboratory.
[12] In 1970 he retired as director of the Cloud Physics Laboratory and went to live in Santa Barbara, where he died in 1982.