Edward Leamington Nichols

Edward Leamington Nichols ( born September 14, 1854 in Leamington, England, † November 10, 1937 in West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American physicist.

Nichols studied at Cornell University and at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Göttingen. At the University of Göttingen in 1879 he received his doctorate.

He worked in the laboratory of Thomas Edison in Menlo Park, NJ He became in 1881 professor of physics and chemistry at the Central University of Kentucky, 1883 professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, and in 1887 professor of physics at Cornell University.

He wrote several school textbooks on physics and dealt with physical optics (fluorescence, luminescence).

Nichols was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1907 President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1907 /08 President of the American Physical Society.

In 1928 he was awarded the Rumford Prize.

  • Physicist (19th Century )
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Member of the American Physical Society
  • University teachers ( University of Kansas )
  • University teachers (Kentucky)
  • University teachers ( Cornell University)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1854
  • Died in 1937
  • Man
Royal Leamington Spa Menlo Park, California Integrated Authority File
255915
de