Papers of Frank P. Goeder

Frank P. Goeder was an alumnus and professor of physics at Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University).

Frank Peat Goeder was born on August 17, 1886, in Westcliffe, Colorado. He earned his B.S. in civil and irrigation engineering in 1913 and his M.S. in science in 1922 from Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University). He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1928. Goeder married Helen Peterson on June 16, 1914, and they had one child, Ruth.

Goeder was the city engineer for Fort Collins from 1913-1916. He then became an assistant professor of physics at CAC from 1916-1919, associate professor from 1919-1943, and professor from 1943-1952. He retired as professor emeritus on June 30, 1952. He was Commissioner of Public Works and Utilities for the city of Fort Collins from 1917-1926. During his tenure, Goeder promoted development of a city park in the early 1920s, worked with the Forest Service to set aside land in the Poudre Canyon for a mountain park, and helped promote Highway 14 up the Poudre Canyon.

Goeder was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Physics, the Colorado Engineers Council, the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Fort Collins Engineers' Club, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Iota Lambda Sigma, and the Poudre Canyon Association. Frank Goeder died in 1963.