Horace Richard Crane (November 4, 1907 – April 19, 2007) was an American physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron,[1][2] a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons".
[4] The National Academy of Sciences called Crane "an extraordinary physicist".
[5] The University of Michigan called him "one of the most distinguished experimental physicists of the 20th century".
During World War II, he worked on radar at MIT and proximity fuses at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Michigan.
He and his wife donated money and time to Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor Township, Michigan, with a building being named after them.