| RefNo | MS/603/8/152 |
| Previous numbers | 1490 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from [Ernest Fox] Nichols, Columbia University, Department of Physics, Phoenix Laboratory, New York City, to [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Nichols; Ernest Fox (1869-1924); American physicist |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 3 August 1907 |
| Description | He has sent all papers concerning [Richard Cockburn] Maclaurin to President [Nicholas Murray] Butler, including his cabled application, and they hope for a decision. Nichols is coming to Larmor's point of view on resistance in a moving conductor. He failed to realise that the current is concerned only with relative shifts of positive and negative charges, and motion which hinders one helps the other. His machinery will be ready for experiment when he gets back. He is obliged for the abstract of [James] Dewar's radiometer experiments and he notes his own and [Gordon Ferry] Hull's paper on radiation pressures and his R.I. [Royal Institution] lecture. He thinks he will write to the Bureau of Standards on measuring resistances. He discusses papers, including an interesting one by [William Weber] Coblentz; one of Nichols' students had the same thing worked out for the carbonates and another was working on the sulphates. Nichols and Day have similar results from substances for waves 1/20mm. long, noting selenium. |
| Extent | 3p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |