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Documents for "Physics: Biographies":

• Ångström, Anders Jöns 1814-74, Swedish physicist. He was educated at the Univ. of Uppsala and in 1839 became a member of its faculty. He is particularly noted for his study of light, especially spectrum analysis. He...

• Abbe, Ernst 1840-1905, German physicist. He was appointed professor at the Univ. of Jena in 1870 and director of its astronomical and meteorological observatories in 1878. From 1866 he was associated with the...

• Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodosius 1724-1802, German physicist. He studied at Jena and Rostock and taught mathematics at Rostock from 1747 to 1755. After a brief stay in Berlin he went to St. Petersburg as professor of physics and...

• Alvarez, Luis Walter 1911-88, American physicist, b. San Francisco, grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1932, Ph.D. 1936. He was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of a large number of residence states...

• Amici, Giovanni Battista 1786-1863, Italian astronomer, mathematician, and naturalist. He became director of the observatory and professor of astronomy at Florence and published papers on various scientific subjects. His...

• Ampère, André Marie 1775-1836, French physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher. He was professor of mathematics at the École Polytechnique, Paris, and later at the Collège de France. Known for his...

• Anderson, Carl David 1905-91, American physicist, b. New York City, grad. California Institute of Technology (B.S., 1927; Ph.D., 1930). Associated with the institute's physics department from 1930, he became professor...

• Anderson, Philip Warren 1923-, American physicist, b. Indianapolis, Ind., Ph.D. Harvard, 1949. After graduation he worked at Bell Laboratories; in 1975 he became a professor of physics at Princeton Univ. In 1977 he was...

• Appleton, Sir Edward Victor 1892-1965, English physicist, grad. St. John's College, Cambridge. After returning from active service in World War I, he became assistant demonstrator in experimental physics at the Cavendish...

• Arago, Dominique François 1786-1853, French physicist and astronomer. He is noted for his discoveries in magnetism and optics as well as for his astronomical observations. Arago was an ardent supporter of the wave theory...

• Arsonval, Arsène d' 1851-1940, French physicist and physician. He worked under Claude Bernard and under C. E. Brown-Séquard (whom he succeeded in 1897 at the Collège de France) and was professor at the Sorbonne from...