Henry Lefavour

Henry Lefavour (born September 4, 1862 in Salem , Massachusetts , † June 16, 1946 ) was an American physicist and university president .

Lefavour earned a bachelor's degree from Williams College in Williamstown , Massachusetts in 1883 and a Ph.D. From 1888 to 1890 Lefavour studied in Berlin . In 1883/84 he had a first teaching position (instructor) at Williston Seminary , a higher educational institution in Easthampton , Massachusetts, before going back to Williams College, where he was instructor of physics and mathematics from 1884 to 1888 and professor of physics from 1888 , from 1897 Dean . In 1902 he moved as president to Simmons College , founded in 1899 , a women's college in Boston , Massachusetts. Lefavour was president of this university until 1933, the number of female students increased tenfold during his presidency and for which he enforced the right to award higher educational qualifications. In 1938 he became president of the Massachusetts Historical Society , and in 1940 he was elected to the American Antiquarian Society .

Since 1894 Lefavour was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , in 1899 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1902 he received an honorary doctorate (LL.D.) from Williams College, in 1905 from Tufts University .

Henry Lefavour married Anna Burgess († 1941) in 1917.

literature

• Lefavour, Henry. In: Who's Who in America. 1908/1909.
• Lefavour, Henry. In: TW Herringshaw: Herringshaw's national library of American biography. 1909-1914.
• Lefavour, Henry. In: HH Stephenson: Who's who in science (international). 1913.
• Henry Lefavour Obituary. In: American Antiquarian Society ( online ).

Fonts

• Physics Lecture Notes , 1893

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed March 11, 2018 (English).