Joseph Sweetman Ames papers, 1888-1968.

Howell, William H. (William Henry), 1860-1945

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Cox, Richard Threlkeld, 1898-

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Johns Hopkins University. Dept. of Physics.

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Rowland, Henry Augustus, 1848-1901

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Biographical Note: First professor of physics at the Johns Hopkins University. He married Henrietta Harrison in 1890, and they had three children Harriet, Henry, and Davidge. From the description of Rowland (Henry Augustus) papers, 1793-1970. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 49310918 Henry Augustus Rowland was a physicist and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1896. From the description of Scrapbook, [n.d.]. (American Philosophica...

Helmholtz, Hermann ˜vonœ 1821-1894

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Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German scientist and philosopher. From the guide to the Letters to various correspondents, 1847-1891., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German scientist and philosopher. From the description of Letters to various correspondents, 1847-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405116 German physicist. From the descrip...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Ames, Joseph Sweetman, 1864-1943

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Biographical Note: Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864-1943) was a physicist, professor (1891-1926) and president (1929-1935) of The Johns Hopkins University, and chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Ames took his B.A. and Ph. D. (1890) degrees from Hopkins. In 1886-87 he studied with Helmholtz at the University of Berlin. Returning to Hopkins Ames studied spectroscopy with Henry Rowland and succeeded Rowland as director of the Physical Laboratory in 1901....

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

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Clark, William Bullock, 1860-1917

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Professor of geology at Hopkins, founder of the Maryland State Weather Service and the Maryland Geological Survey. Clark was born in Brattleboro, VT in 1860, and married Ellen C. Strong of Boston in 1892. He taught at Hopkins from 1889 until his death in 1917. From the description of William Bullock Clark papers, 1888-1925. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 49301341 ...

Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) U.S. ph...

Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924

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Classical scholar, born in Charleston, S.C. Professor at University of Virginia, 1856-76; first professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins (1876-1915). Served in Confederate Army during Civil War; wounded in Shenandoah campaign. Founder and editor (1880-1920) of American Journal of Philology. Author of "The Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" (1900-11); "Hellasand Hesperia" (1908); "The Creed of the Old South" (1915). From the description of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers, 1847-1925. (...

Murnaghan, Francis D. (Francis Dominic), 1893-

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Francis D. Murnaghan was professor of mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University (1928-1949). He was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1893. He studied at the National University of Ireland before coming to the United States in 1914. Murnaghan received his Ph. D. from Hopkins in 1916 and taught briefly at the Rice Institute. He returned to Hopkins in 1918 to teach in the mathematics department where he later served as chairman of the department. Murnaghan was appointed the first professor ...