Holman, Silas W. (Silas Whitcomb), 1856-1900

Silas Whitcomb Holman (1856-1900) was an 1876 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning the degree of SB in physics. Upon his graduation he was appointed an assistant in the Department of Physics. He stayed at MIT throughout his life, moving up the ranks to instructor (1880), assistant professor (1882), associate professor (1885), professor (1893), and professor emeritus(1897).

Holman attended Cambridge public schools and, after three years of high school, enrolled at MIT in the fall of 1872. In 1873 he enrolled in the newly established course in physics, was commissioned as an officer in the Institute battalion, and elected president of his class association. Holman studied under Edward C. Pickering, first director of the Rogers Laboratory of Physics and Thayer Professor of Physics.

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