Sam Matteson, Professor Emeritus (physics) received the Nilson Award on November 16.
This is a national award given annually by Faculty Commons to one Christian faculty member at a public university who has demonstrated outstanding leadership.
Sam received his PhD from Baylor in 1976, and did postdoc work at Cal Tech. He worked at Texas Instruments as a research scientist until joining the UNT physics department in 1987.
He has the distinction of being the chairman of four different departments at UNT. He and his wife Carolyn have been married for 46 years and love spending time with their children and grandchildren in Tennessee and Colorado.
