Shirley Leon Quimby
| Shirley Leon Quimby | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 21, 1893 San Francisco |
| Died |
May 15, 1986 (aged 92) New York |
| Fields | solid-state physics |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Thesis | On the experimental determination of the viscosity of vibrating solids (1925) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albert Potter Wills |
| Doctoral students | Jerrold R. Zacharias, William Fuller Brown, Andrew Werner Lawson, Arthur S. Nowick |
| Spouse | Edith Quimby |
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 a 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.
References
- Nowick, A.; Havens Jr., W. W. (1986). "Shirley Leon Quimby". Physics Today 39 (11): 119–121. doi:10.1063/1.2815223.
- "Dr. Shirley Leon Quimby". The New York Times. June 6, 1986.
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