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RefNoMS/603/8/156
Previous numbers1494
LevelItem
TitleLetter from [Ernest Fox] Nichols, Columbia University, Department of Physics, Phoenix Laboratory, New York City, to Sir Joseph [Larmor]
CreatorNichols; Ernest Fox (1869-1924); American physicist
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date28 June 1909
DescriptionHe congratulates Larmor on the new form of address [his knighthood] and his friends take it as a compliment to mathematical physics. Nichols is leaving Columbia to become President of Dartmouth College, where he previously worked with [Gordon Ferry] Hull on radiation pressure. He and Mrs. Nichols feel they are going home. In his new role he is looking for a good mathematician with experience of teaching undergraduates elementary mathematics and he asks Larmor for recommendations for this Assistant Professorship salaried at $2,000. He hopes the Board might raise this to $2,400. His plans have been so upset that he does not know if he will get to Winnipeg. However, he and [Henry Andrews] Bumstead might be able to agree on a sea trip which could take him to England for a few days.
Extent2p.
FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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