Rumford Chair of Physics information

The Rumford Chair of Physics (originally the Rumford Chair and Lectureship on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts) is an endowed professorship...

endowed the Rumford medals of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and endowed the Rumford Chair of Physics at Harvard University...

Brackett Chair of Physics is an endowed professorship established at Princeton University in 1927 by a donation from Thomas D. Jones in honor of Cyrus Fogg...

cautious of the young teacher's financial prospects, denied permission for the marriage until Horsford had attained the Rumford Chair of Physics, and the...

candidate for the Rumford Chair of Physics until John White Webster got involved. Rogers had been tarnished by association with Vestiges of Creation, and...

occupy the physics chair at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1892. Later on in 1894, Becquerel became chief engineer in the Department of Bridges...

describe these two distinct types of radiation. In 1898, Rutherford was accepted to the chair of Macdonald Professor of physics position at McGill University...

the first woman to win the Rumford Medal by the Royal Society. 2023: Anne l'Huillier receives the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for "for experimental methods...

University from 1903 to 1909. Nichols was awarded the Rumford Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1905 for his proof that light exerts...

result of a proposal by Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) for the "formation by Subscription, in the Metropolis of the British Empire, of a Public...

and combustion, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1953 and in 1960 awarded their Rumford Medal. He is perhaps best known, however...

age, Lorentz was appointed to the newly established chair in theoretical physics at the University of Leiden. The position had initially been offered to...

inventor of one of the first forms of the waterbed, the Arnott waterbed, and was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1852 for the construction of the smokeless...

of investigations concerning the perception of colour, colour-blindness, and colour theory, and was awarded the Rumford Medal for "On the Theory of Colour...

vacant chair, the applicants being rated on their publications by a committee of professors. Fermi applied for a chair of mathematical physics at the...

who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". He completed...

Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science...

inversion of the bright lines in the spectra of artificial light. In 1875 Kirchhoff accepted the first chair dedicated specifically to theoretical physics at...

Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". The mineral Braggite is named...

state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wide audience. From 1853 to 1887 he was professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great...

received the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society of London and appointment as Chief Engineer of Mines. In 1851 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal...

was appointed to a Chair of Physics at Birmingham University. He was appointed to the Poynting Chair in 1973. He served as Head of Department from 1973...

2000 Lars Onsager Prize William Frank Vinen, Professor of Physics, recipient of the 1980 Rumford Medal U.R. Ananthamurthy, academic and writer Edward Arber...

December 26, 2021. For Dutch use of "y" and "ij", see IJ (digraph) Debye's predecessor in the chair of theoretical physics at Utrecht was Cornelis Wind,...