Francis Eugene Nipher
Francis Eugene Nipher (December 10, 1847 – October 6, 1926) was a United States physicist.
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| Born | December 10, 1847 Port Byron, New York |
| Died | October 6, 1926 (aged 78) Kirkwood, Missouri |
| Education | Iowa State University |
| Occupation | Physicist |
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Biography
Francis Eugene Nipher was born in Port Byron, New York on December 10, 1847.[1]
He graduated in 1870 from Iowa State University, where he became assistant in physical science. In 1874, he was appointed professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He organized the second state weather service, that of Missouri, in 1877, and for ten years it was maintained without official support. From 1878 until 1883, he conducted a magnetic survey of Missouri, doing the work under private auspices, and publishing the annual reports in the Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences. Nipher was a member of scientific societies, and in 1885 became president of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences.[1]
He died at his home in Kirkwood, Missouri on October 6, 1926.[2][3]
Publications
His publications, including twenty-five papers on physics, were contributed to the American Journal of Science and to transactions of societies. He is also the author of Theory of Magnetic Measurements (New York, 1886).
Notes
- Stevens, Walter B. (1921). Centennial History of Missouri Deluxe Supplement. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. pp. 211–213. Retrieved November 25, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
- "Francis E. Nipher, Noted Scientist, Dies in Kirkwood". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 6, 1926. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved November 25, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Subjects of Biographies". Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
No. 11, marzo 1918, Electrical Experimenter Science and Invention, pag. 743, can electricity destroy gravitation?, Francis E. Nipher.