Shirley Leon Quimby (August 21, 1893 – May 15, 1986) was an American physicist. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley in 1915 and received his PhD in physics at Columbia University in 1925. He served as a professor at Columbia from 1943 and became professor emeritus in 1962. In 1915 he married fellow student Edith Hinkley, who would later be noted for her contributions to nuclear medicine and radiology.
Shirley Leon Quimby | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 21, 1893 |
| Died | May 15, 1986 (aged 92) |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Spouse | Edith Quimby |
| Awards | Fellow of the APS (1931)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | solid-state physics |
| Thesis | On the experimental determination of the viscosity of vibrating solids (1925) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albert Potter Wills |
| Doctoral students | Jerrold R. Zacharias, William Fuller Brown, Don Kirkham, Arthur S. Nowick |
References
edit- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year 1931 and institution Columbia University)
- Nowick, A.; Havens Jr., W. W. (1986). "Shirley Leon Quimby". Physics Today. 39 (11): 119–121. Bibcode:1986PhT....39k.119N. doi:10.1063/1.2815223.
- "Dr. Shirley Leon Quimby". The New York Times. June 6, 1986.
External links
edit- Shirley Leon Quimby at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Finding aid to the Shirley Leon Quimby Papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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