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Nichols (EDWARD LEAMINGTON)

EDWARD LEAMINGTON, to Indianapolis and devoted himself to American physicist; born at Leamington, England, 1854. Graduated from Cornell, 1875. Studied at Leipsic, Berlin, and Göttingen (Ph.D. 1879). Appointed to a fellowship in physics, Johns Hopkins.

Worked in Edison's laboratory, Menlo Park. Professor of physics and astronomy, Central University, Kentucky, 188 1881.

Physics and chemistry, University of Kansas, 1883. Professor of physics, Cornell, 1887. Member National Academy of Sciences, and President American Association for Advanced Science, 1907, and of American Physicist Society, 1907- 1918. LL. D. and D. Sc., University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth.