Bliss, William Julian Albert, 1867-1940.

Professor of Physics, The Johns Hopkins University.

Bliss was born in Washington, D.C. on January 22, 1867. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1888 and entered the Physics graduate program at The Johns Hopkins University the same year. After receiving his doctorate in 1894, Bliss joined the faculty. He taught continously for 38 years, instructing students in electricity and magnetism and co-authoring with Joseph S. Ames what was to be come the standard physics lab guide "The Manual of Experimental Physics." He retired in 1928 and died in 1940.

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