Edward Leamington Nichols

Edward Leamington Nichols

Edward Leamington Nichols (born September 14, 1854 in Leamington , England , † November 10, 1937 in West Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American physicist .

Nichols studied at Cornell University , as well as at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen. He received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1879. He then worked in Thomas Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park .

In 1881 he became professor of physics and chemistry at the Central University of Kentucky, in 1883 professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas and in 1887 professor of physics at Cornell University. He wrote several school textbooks on physics and dealt with physical optics (fluorescence and luminescence).

Nichols was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1901), President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1907, and President of the American Physical Society in 1907/08 .

In 1928 he was awarded the Rumford Prize .