Ernest Fox Nichols

Ernest Fox Nichols

Ernest Fox Nichols (born June 1, 1869 in Leavenworth County , Kansas , † April 29, 1924 in Washington, DC ) was an American teacher and physicist who was best known for the experimental evidence of radiation pressure .

Life

Ernest Nichols received his first degree from Kansas State University in 1888 . After spending a year in chemistry, he enrolled at Cornell University , where he earned additional degrees in 1893 and 1897. He also studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Cambridge .

Nichols worked as a professor of physics at Cambridge University from 1892 to 1898, at Dartmouth College from 1898 to 1903, and at Columbia University from 1903 to 1909. After that, Nichols was the 10th President of Dartmouth College between 1909 and 1916, from 1916 Professor of Physics at Yale University , and President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1921 to 1923. He was also elected Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1908 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1913 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Nichols became particularly famous when he and Gordon Ferrie Hull were one of the first to experimentally demonstrate radiation pressure in 1903 . For this he also received the Rumford Prize in 1905.

bibliography

• EF Nichols, GF Hull: About Radiation Pressure . In: Annals of Physics . tape 12 , 1903, pp. 225-263 .

Web links

• Dartmouth Physics: Ernest Fox Nichols. In: Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science. October 9, 2012. 
• Ernest Fox Nichols in the Wheelock Succession . dartmouth.edu