George Kimball Burgess

George Kimball Burgess

George Kimball Burgess (1874 – July 2 1932) was an American physicist, born at Newton, Massachusetts.

Biography

After an education obtained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Paris, he served as instructor in physics at MIT and at the universities of Michigan and California.

In 1903 he became associate physicist in the National Bureau of Standards, paying particular attention to pyrometric researches. Besides translating "Le Chatelier's High Temperature Measurements" (1901), and "Duhem's Thermodynamics and Chemistry", he was author of "Recherches sur la constante de gravitation" (1901); "Experimental Physics, Freshman Course" (1902); "The Measurement of High Temperatures", with H. Le Chatelier (1911; third edition, revised, 1912); "A Micropyrometer", (1913).

In addition he became editor of the "Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences" in 1911. He became the second director of the Bureau of Standards in 1923 and he held this post until his death.

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