Arthur Gordon Webster
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Arthur Gordon Webster (November 28, 1863 – May 15, 1923) was an American physicist who founded the American Physical Society.
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Born | (1863-11-28)November 28, 1863 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | May 15, 1923(1923-05-15) (aged 59) Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | Harvard College University of Berlin |
Known for | Acoustics Ballistics Founder of the APS |
Awards | Elihu Thomson prize (1895) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Clark University |
Thesis | Versuche über eine Methode zur Bestimmung des Verhältnisses der elektromagnetischen zur elektrostatischen Einheit der Elektricität (1890) |
Doctoral advisor | Hermann von Helmholtz |
Doctoral students | Mildred Allen Robert Goddard Albert Potter Wills |
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