Lyman Briggs

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Lyman Briggs (4th from left).

Lyman James Briggs (born May 7, 1874 in Assyria near Batte Creek , Michigan , † March 25, 1963 ) was an American engineer , physicist and administrator.

Life

Briggs studied at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University ), the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Johns Hopkins University .

From 1917, officially from 1920, he worked at the National Bureau of Standards . Briggs became assistant director of the NBS in 1926 and its director in 1932.

Awarding of the Magellanic Premium to Lyman Briggs (left) and Paul R. Heyl in 1922

In 1922 he and Paul R. Heyl received the Magellanic Premium for the development of an induction compass. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1935, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1939, and the National Academy of Sciences in 1942 . In 1948 he received the Medal for Merit from US President Harry S. Truman .

Works

  • Summary of the results of the stratosphere flight of the Explorer II. Natl. Geogr. Soc. Technol. Pap. Stratosphere Series. 2: 5-12. (1936)
  • NBS War Research: The National Bureau of Standards in World War II. NIST archives (1949)
  • Methods for measuring the coefficient of restitution and the spin of a ball. J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 34: 1-23. (1945)
  • Lyman J. Briggs, Effect of spin and speed on the lateral deflection (curve) of a baseball and the Magnus effect for smooth spheres. At the. J. Phys. 27: 589-96. (1959)
  • Lyman J. Briggs, Limiting negative pressure of water, J. Appl. Phys. 21: 721-22. (1950)
  • The limiting negative pressure of mercury in Pyrex glass. J. Appl. Phys. 24: 488-90. (1953)

Publications together with other people

  • JW McLane, The moisture equivalents of soils USDA Bur. Soils Bull. 45. (1907)
  • JW McLane, Moisture equivalent determinations and their application, Proc. At the. Soc. Agron. 2: 138-47. (1910)
  • HL Shantz, A wax seal method for determining the lower limit of available soil moisture, Bot. Gaz. 51: 210-19. (1911)
  • HL Shantz, The wilting coefficient for different plants and its indirect determination, USDA Bur. Plant Ind. Bull. 230. (1912)
  • PR Heyl. The earth inductor compass. Proc. At the. Phil. Soc. 61: 15-32. (1922)
  • GF Hull and HL Dryden . Aerodynamics of airfoils at high speeds. Natl. Adv. Comm. Aeron. Rep. 207. (1925)

literature

  • Peter Briggs Myers, Johanna MH Levelt Sengers: Lyman James Briggs, May 7, 1874-March 25, 1963 . Ed .: National Academy of Sciences (=  Biographical Memoirs . Volume 77 ). National Academy Press, 1999, ISBN 0-309-06644-1 , ISSN  0077-2933 , pp. 3-18 ( nasonline.org [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society , website of the APS . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
  2. ^ Member History: Lyman J. Briggs. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Briggs, Lyman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briggs, Lyman James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer, physicist, and administrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Assyria at Batte Creek , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1963