Nationality American Role Physicist Alma mater Clark University Education Clark University | Name Albert Wills Fields Physicist | |
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Institutions University of Gottingen
University of Berlin
Bryn Mawr College
Cooper Hewitt Laboratory
Columbia University Doctoral students Isidor Isaac Rabi
Francis Bitter
Ralph De Laer Kronig
Luther Grant Hector
Shirley Leon Quimby Died 1937, Florida, United States Books Vector analysis, Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics - Scholar's Choice Edition Similar People Isidor Isaac Rabi, Arthur Gordon Webster, Ralph Kronig, Francis Bitter, George II of Great Britain | ||
Doctoral advisor Arthur Gordon Webster Residence United States of America | ||
Albert Potter Wills (1873–1937) was an American physicist who researched magnetic materials and was the PhD advisor of the Nobel Prize winner Isidor Isaac Rabi.
During his career he investigated magnetic susceptibilities, magnetic shielding, magnetostriction, conduction of electricity through mercury vapor, and hydrodynamics. He also wrote a textbook on vector analysis.
Wills received his PhD from Clark University in 1897 under Arthur Gordon Webster with a thesis entitled: On the susceptibility of diamagnetic and weakly magnetic substances.
During 1898–1899 Wills worked at the University of Göttingen and the University of Berlin. During 1899–1902 he was at Bryn Mawr College and 1902–1903 at the Cooper Hewitt Laboratory. His final appointment, 1903–1937, was at Columbia University.