doctoral_advisor death_date death_place work_institution birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
carroll m. sparrow 2 august 1974 auburn , alabama , united states auburn university glade spring , virginia , united states american 4 july 1882 unfounded and virginium , erroneous claim to have discovered alabamium , fred allison
 fred c. allison johns hopkins university university of virginia
fred allison

fred c. allison -lrb- 1882 -- 1974 -rrb- was an american physicist .
he developed a magneto-optic spectroscopy method that became known as the allison magneto-optic method .
he claimed to have discovered two new elements -lrb- later discredited -rrb- using this method .
he taught at the auburn university physics department for more than thirty years .
