Francis Bitter

Francis Bitter ( born July 22, 1902 in Weehawken Township, New Jersey; † 26 July 1967) was an American physicist.

Bitter began in 1919 to study at the University of Chicago and graduated in 1925 from Columbia University. Then he sat 1925/26, continued his studies in Berlin and was founded in 1928 at Columbia University for Ph.D. doctorate.

Later Bitter was mainly a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He provided significant work on the ferromagnetism and the development of powerful electromagnets.

Named after him, the bitter - strips are named. The bitter - stripes give a vivid proof of the existence of the white districts.