Daniel Webster Hering was born near Smithburg, Maryland in 1850. Precocious in mathematics, he obtained a Maryland teaching certificate at the age of eleven. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil engineering from Yale University. Following a period of employment as a railroad civil engineer, Hering turned to teaching. He taught at Western Maryland College and the University of Pittsburgh before becoming professor of physics at New York University in 1885. Among his noteworthy scientific endeavors was early work in Rotentgen x-rays. Hering took what may be the first radiograph of the entire human body.
Hering became dean of the Graduate School at NYU in 1902, and served until his his retirement in 1916. In 1926, however, the Council of NYU appointed him curator of the James Arthur Collection of Clocks and Watches, which was housed in the Gould Memorial Library on the University Heights campus of NYU in the Bronx. Hering died in New York City in March, 1938.
From the description of Papers, 1889-1939. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476457613
