| Ernest Fox Nichols Born: 1-Jun-1869
Birthplace: Leavenworth, KS
Died: 29-Apr-1924
Location of death: Washington, DC
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist, Administrator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Infrared radiation In 1903, physicist Ernest Fox Nichols studied the absorption of infrared radiation, and showed that light exerts a minute but measurable pressure on objects, a principle of great importance to astrophysicists. He improved the design and function of the radiometer, a device for measuring stellar radiation, and in 1913 he founded Physical Review, the journal of the American Physical Society. He served as President of Dartmouth College, and later as President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He died at the 1924 meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, suffering a heart attack while delivering an address on the relation between infrared and electric wave spectra. Father: Alonzo Curtis Nichols (photographer, b. 7-Nov-1824, d. 4-Aug-1884)
Mother: Sophronia Fox Nichols (b. 9-Mar-1829, m. 1-Jan-1861, d. 3-Mar-1882)
Brother: Charles Nichols (b. 19-Sep-1861, d. infancy)
Brother: Arthur Lon Nichols (newspaper publisher, b. 28-Jun-1865, d. Feb-1937)
Wife: Katharine Williams West Nichols (b. 4-Apr-1864, m. 16-Jun-1894, d. 10-Feb-1950, one daughter)
Daughter: Esther Katharine Nichols (b. 5-May-1895, d. 13-Jul-1980)
University: BS, Kansas State University (1888)
Teacher: Chemistry, Kansas State University (1888-89)
University: MS Physics, Cornell University (1893)
University: PhD Physics, Cornell University (1897)
Scholar: University of Berlin
Scholar: Cambridge University
Professor: Physics, Colgate University (1892-98)
Professor: Physics, Dartmouth College (1898-1903)
Professor: Physics, Columbia University (1903-09)
Administrator: President, Dartmouth College (1909-16)
Professor: Physics, Yale University (1916-21)
Administrator: President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1921-22)
Rumford Prize 1905
American Association for the Advancement of Science Vice President (1903)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences 1908
Physical Review Founder & Editor (1893-1913)
English Ancestry
Scottish Ancestry
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