William H. Brantley has had an impressive career teaching thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, introductory classes, and physics for non-majors, including a unique, interdisciplinary course of his own creation. Brantley became a member of Furman's faculty in 1966 and served as the department's chair from 1967 to 1979. He is a founding member on the executive board of the University Radioactive Ion Beam Consortium, a nuclear physics research consortium based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Honors

• Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society's George B. Pegram Award, 2005.
• Alester G. Furman Jr. Award for meritorious teaching, 2012

Membership:

• American Physical Society
• Eastern Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers
• Sigma Pi Sigma: Physics Honor Society
• Kappa Delta Pi
• Society of the Sigma X

Education

• Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
• M.A., Vanderbilt University
• B.A, Mercer University