Howard L. Schultz, a nuclear physicist who helped design and direct the first linear accelerator laboratory at Yale University, died last Friday at the University Health Services Center in New Haven. He was 64 years old.
Professor Schultz joined the Yale physics faculty in 1945, and immediately began work in building atom‐smashing devices. Between 1961 and 1976 he was director of the Electron Linear Accelerator laboratory.
A team of scientists he directed drew up plans for the accelerator, which was financed by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and placed in operation in 1961.
Earlier, in 1951, he headed a project that expanded the Yale linear accelerator to a 15‐section, 6.5 million‐electron‐volt machine.
Born in Cassadaga, N.Y., in 1912, Mr. Schultz earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Buffalo. in 1937 he was awarded a Ph.D. from Yale, where he was an instructor from 1938 until 1940.
This article is adapted from the obituary which appeared in the New York Times issue of March 11, 1977.