Field Solid-state physics | Academic advisor Albert Potter Wills | |
Born August 21, 1893San Francisco ( 1893-08-21 ) Thesis On the experimental determination of the viscosity of vibrating solids (1925) Doctoral students People also search for Albert Potter Wills, Don Kirkham, Jerrold R. Zacharias, Arthur Nowick, William Fuller Brown, Jr. |
Shirley Leon Quimby (August 21, 1893 – May 15, 1986) was an American physicist. He graduated from University of California at Berkeley in 1915 and received his PhD in physics at Columbia University in 1925. He served as a professor at Columbia from 1943 and became professor emeritus in 1962. In 1915 he married fellow student Edith Hinkley, who would later be noted for her contributions to nuclear medicine and radiology.
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