Fields Spectroscopy Education Harvard University Role Massachusetts | Name Theodore Lyman Alma mater Harvard University Succeeded by Frederick D. Ely | |
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Born November 23, 1874
Boston, Massachusetts ( 1874-11-23 ) Notable awards Elliott Cresson Medal (1931) Died September 9, 1897, Nahant, Massachusetts, United States Books Meade's Army, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox Battles and wars American Civil War, Battle of Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg Similar People David W Lowe, Ulysses S Grant, Robert E Lee | ||
A BROOK THROUGH TIME
Theodore Lyman (; November 23, 1874 – October 11, 1954) was a U.S. physicist and spectroscopist, born in Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1897, from which he also received his Ph.D. in 1900.
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Career
Lyman became an assistant professor in physics at Harvard, where he remained, becoming full professor in 1917, and where he was also director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory (1908–17). He made important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies.
Military service
During World War I he served in France with the American Expeditionary Force, holding the rank of major of engineers.
Legacy/honors
Affiliations
He became a hereditary member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States in succession to his father, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Lyman III.