Richard Franklin Humphreys (May 16, 1911 – August 8, 1968)[1] was a physicist and President of Cooper Union.
Humphreys was born in Greenville, Ohio and in 1933 earned a bachelor's degree from DePauw University.
He eventually became an associate professor of physics at Yale, where he was the acting director of Yale's Sloane Physics Laboratory and carried out underwater sound research for the US federal government.
In 1949, he joined the Armour Research Foundation at the Illinois Institute of Technology and worked in the field of atomic physics.
[3] During his time as Cooper Union's president (1961-1968), the college expanded the school's academic programs.