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Nichols (ERNEST FOX American scientist)

ERNEST FOX, American scientist; born in 1869 at Leavenworth, , Kan. He studied at Kansas Agricultural College, and at Cornell, Berlin, and Cambridge. From 1892 he taught physics at Colgate University, and Dartmouth from 1898, and at Columbia from 1903 to 1909, in which year he became head of Dartmouth. He studied radiation phenomena at Mount Wilson Solar Observatory. He has experimented in the measurement of heat waves, and heat radiation from stars and planets, and of the pressure due to radiation. His literary work has been done mostly in connection with his editorship of the "Physical Review."