Edward Leamington Nichols

Edward Leamington Nichols

Born	14 September 1854 Leamington, England
Died	November 10, 1937(1937-11-10) (aged 83) West Palm Beach, Florida
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Thomas Edison laboratory Central University of Kentucky University of Kansas Cornell University AAAS American Physical Society NIST
Doctoral advisor	Johann Benedict Listing
Other academic advisors	Hermann von Helmholtz Gustav Kirchhoff
Doctoral students	Ernest Fox Nichols
Notable awards	Elliott Cresson Medal (1927)

Edward Leamington Nichols (14 September 1854 – November 10, 1937) was an American physicist.

He was born of American parentage at Leamington, England, and received his education at Cornell University, graduating in 1875. After Studying at Leipzig, Berlin, and Göttingen (Ph.D., 1879) he was appointed fellow in physics at Johns Hopkins. He then spent some time in the Thomas Edison laboratory at Menlo Park, N. J., and subsequently became professor of physics and chemistry in the Central University of Kentucky (1881), professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas (1883), and professor of physics at Cornell University (1887). He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907) and of the American Physical Society (1907–08), and served as a member of the visiting committee of the United States Bureau of Standards. The degrees of LL.D. and Sc.D. were conferred on Professor Nichols by the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College respectively. He was the author of several college textbooks on physics. In 1927 he was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal. In 1929 he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the OSA. He was adviser of numerous outstanding scientists in Cornell University including Ernest Nichols, Arthur Foley, and Rolla Roy Ramsey. His PhD adviser was Johann Benedict Listing in Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.