John S. Toll is a physicist and well-known educational administrator. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale in 1944, after which he served in the Navy in World War II. He finished his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton in 1952. He then moved to the University of Maryland, where he became Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1953. During his tenure as Chair, he was responsible for a major increase in size and quality of the department. Wikipedia
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John S. Toll’s career in higher education has touched six decades, culminating in his presidency of a small liberal arts college that he helped redefine as one of the great small liberal arts colleges in the nation. www.aip.org/history/historymatters/toll.htm
