Gordon Ferrie Hull

Gordon Ferrie Hull (October 7, 1870 Garnet, Ontario, Canada - October 7 , 1956) was a Canadian / American teacher, mathematician and physicist, especially known for the experimental detection of the radiation pressure exerted by light which he achieved in 1903.^[1][2][3][4]

Life

Hull began his career in 1890-1891 as a teacher of mathematics and science at Hamilton Collegiate Institute, Ontario.

He attended Toronto University where he obtained his batchelors degree in 1892 and became a Fellow in physics, University of Toronto 1892-1895 .

Hull earned his 1897 doctorate of physics at the University of Chicago and was later a professor of physics there^[1] at Colby College. Thereafter (1899–1940), he taught physics at Dartmouth College.^[1] In addition, he had a research position at Cambridge University (1905–1906) and taught physics at Columbia University (1909–1915). As well as his academic career he was conscripted into the army in both World War I (1918–1919) and World War II (1941–1944) as Major, in the U.S. Army Ordnance Department.^[1]

He married Wilhelmine Brandt on September 5, 1911. He had one son, Gordon Ferrie Hull, Jr.

He is especially famous for his 1903 experiment conducted with Ernest Fox Nichols in which they were the first to demonstrate the radiation pressure exerted by a beam of light.^[1] The apparatus is now known as the Nichols radiometer. Much of this apparatus is now in the Smithsonian, thanks to the generosity of Gordon F. Hull, Jr.

Publications

• Survey of Modern Physics (1936) Author
• Elementary Modern Physics (1948) Author

Bibliography

• Nichols, E. F.; Hull, GF (1903). About Radiation pressure. Annalen der Physik. pp. 225–263. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k153215/f257.chemindefer. 

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Hull papers at Dartmouth College
2. ^ "H071 HULL, GORDON FERRIE, 1870-1956 Dartmouth College Library (Hanover, NH)". Publications index H. IEEE. 2009. https://origin.www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/publications/sources1/archival_collectionsh.html. Retrieved 2009-06-11. 
3. ^ Capria, Marco Mamone (2005). Physics before and after Einstein. IOS Press. pp. 26. ISBN 1586034626. http://books.google.com/?id=r9C-SCXymPoC&pg=PA26&dq=Gordon+Ferrie+Hull+1870+1956. 
4. ^ Sebastian, Anton (2001). A Dictionary of the History of Science. Informa Health Care. pp. 180. ISBN 185070418X. http://books.google.com/?id=1AcM1hIYOmMC&pg=PA180&dq=Gordon+Hull+1870+1956. 

• Schagrin, Morton L. (1974). "Early Observations and Calculations on Light Pressure". American Journal of Physics 42 (11): 927–940. Bibcode 1974AmJPh..42..927S. doi:10.1119/1.1987899. 

External links

• Photo of Gordon Ferrie Hull at Life magazine, 1937

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Date of death	1956
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