Guide to the Joseph Sweetman Ames physics lectures MSS.0077
Ames, Joseph Sweetman
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
May 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Joseph Sweetman Ames physics lectures
- Unit ID:
MSS.0077
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (1 item)
- Dates:
1898-1899
- Abstract:
Physics lectures in form of mimeographed, bound textbook delivered in 1898-1899 to the second year students of Johns Hopkins University by Joseph S. Ames, professor of physics. Book belonged to H. A. Sayre.
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains physics lectures in the form of a mimeographed, bound textbook delivered in 1898-1899 to the second year students of Johns Hopkins University by Joseph S. Ames, professor of physics. Book belonged to H. A. Sayre.
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Joseph Sweetman Ames physics lectures, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Biographical/Historical note
Joseph Sweetman Ames was a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926-1929, and university president from 1929-1935.
Born on 3 July 1864 in Manchester, Vermont, he is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor of NASA), and was its longtime chair (1919-1939). NASA's Ames Research Center is named after him. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911, and was the 1935 recipient of the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution.
Ames died on 24 June 1943.
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Ames, Joseph Sweetman, 1864-1943 (Library_of_Congress_Name_Authority_File)
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Ames Joseph Sweetman 1864 Box 9