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Lyman James Briggs
Lyman James Briggs
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13io,qraphicat Memoirs VOLUME 77
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H LEVELT SENGERS LYMAN JAMES BRIGGS APPEARED on the Washington scene at a time when the physical sciences, especially physics, were about to expanc!
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It was the duty of my brother and myself to feed the chickens and the pigs; to gather the eggs; to keep the kitchen wood box filled; to drive the cows to pasture; to go to the post office for mail; and to market eggs at the country crossroads store in exchange for groceries my mother specified. These things were to be done first without prompting.
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Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in East Lansing, which he enterer!
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in an Executive Order detailing him from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Stanciarcis in 1917. He was set to work on two topics: a stable zenith instrument for the Navy en c!
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The HeyIBriggs earth inductor compass worker! by spinning an electric coil in the magnetic field!
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Cottrell, and for years the two designed and constructed many special devices that Briggs used in his measurement studies. His laboratory was a wonderful clutter of apparatus in various stages of assembly, a tangle of piping and tubing and ticking instruments, but it was comfortable and a tranquil spirit filled it.
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American scientists to the discovery of fission of uranium by Otto Hahn en c! Fritz Strassmann in Berlin, as confirmed!
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its work greatly expanclecI. Initial work on separating, purifying, and characterizing uranium isotopes was clone at NBS, where about sixty civil servants were engages!
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At his explicit request, however, the names of the first three directors of NBS were cast onto the rim of the instrument: Samuel Wesley Stratton, George Kimball Burgess, and Lyman James Briggs.3 The sunclial presently graces the courtyarc! of the National Institute of Stanciarcis en c!
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tunnel, en c! with collaboration of two pitchers from the Washington Senators baseball club, he carefully studied the ~.
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stumblingly groping towards a realization of the important role kthat] science must play in the full future clevelopment of human society." KARMA BEAL, ARCHIVIST at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the National Bureau of Standards, made available to us material from NIST archives, including newspaper clippings
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His former collaborators in soil science, atomic energy, aerodynamics, gravity, and geographic exploration wrote articles highlighting Briggs's contributions to these fields.3 We made ample use of the biography written by Allen V Astin on the occasion of the centennial celebration of Briggs's birth.4 Karma Beal meticulously read the manuscript for accuracy of facts.
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Burr Award, National Geographic Society Briggs at various times servec! as president of: American Physical Society Washington Academy of Sciences
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6 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS Philosophical Society of Washington Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Federal Club, Washington, D.C.
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A wax seal method for determining the lower limit of available soil moisture.
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21 :721-22. 1953 The limiting negative pressure of mercury in Pyrex glass.
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