Name John Reed Role Physicist | Died 1916 | |
Books High School Physics - Scholar's Choice Edition Education University of Jena (1897), University of Michigan, Harvard University | ||
John Oren Reed (1856 - 1916) was an American physicist and university dean.
Born at New Castle, Indiana, in 1885 he graduated from the University of Michigan, where, after studying at Harvard (1891-92), he was instructor (1892 - 1894), assistant professor (1894 -1899), junior professor (1899 - 1905), and professor of physics.
He earned a Ph. D. at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in Germany in 1897.
He was also dean of the summer session from 1899 to 1908 and of the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts after 1907, and director of the Physical Laboratory after 1909.
Publications
His publications include:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.