Edward Leamington Nichols

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name = Edward Leamington Nichols


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birth_date = 1854
birth_place = Leamington, England
death_date = death date|1937|11|10|mf=y
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field = Physics
work_institution = Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Edison laboratory
Central University of Kentucky
University of Kansas
Cornell University
AAAS
American Physical Society
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Edward Leamington Nichols (1854 – November 10, 1937) was an American physicist. He was born of American parentage at Leamington, England, and received his education at Cornell University, graduating in 1875. After Studying at Leipzig, Berlin, and Göttingen (Ph.D., 1879) he was appointed fellow in physics at Johns Hopkins. He then spent some time in the Thomas Edison laboratory at Menlo Park, N. J., and subsequently became professor of physics and chemistry in the Central University of Kentucky (1881), professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas (1883), and professor of physics at Cornell University (1887). He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907) and of the American Physical Society (1907-08), and served as a member of the visiting committee of the United States Bureau of Standards. The degrees of LL.D. and Sc.D. were conferred on Professor Nichols by the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College respectively. He was the author of several college textbooks on physics.

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