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William Martin Fairbank was an American physicist known in particular for his work on liquid helium.
Fairbank obtained his A. B. degree from Whitman College and his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University under the supervision of C. T. Lane. He then went on to a productive academic career.
Assistant Professor of Physics, Amherst College, 1947–1952
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics, Duke University, 1952–1959
Professor to Max H. Stein Professor of Physics, Stanford University 1959–1985
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Stanford University 1985–1989
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