Grinnell / Ames Laboratory / National Broadcasting Company / American Telephone & Telegraph Company / Westinghouse Electrical Corporation / Chemical Laboratory / Bell Telephone Laboratory / /
Country
Columbia / /
Currency
GBP / USD / /
Event
Person Travel / Employment Change / /
Facility
The University of Iowa / Ames Laboratory / Parsons College / Muhlenberg College / Simpson College / At Drake University / Iowa State University / Drake University / University of Chicago campus / Coe College / Lake Forest College / Bell Telephone Laboratory / University of Colorado / University of Iowa / University of Northern Iowa / University of Pittsburgh / Westmar College / University of Chicago / Cornell University / Iowa State Teachers College / Mt. Wilson Observatory / T. Proctor Hall / Luther College / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / /
IndustryTerm
wireless telegraph / wireless telephone / wireless telephony / oil drop measurements / nuclear energy / energy / solar energy research work / laboratory equipment / wireless telegraphy / physics equipment / nuclear energy development / uranium metal / electricity / /
NaturalFeature
Mt. Wilson Observatory / /
Organization
Coe College / Lake Forest College / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Iowa State University / army / Cornell University / the University of Iowa / University of Pittsburgh / Luther College / American Physical Society / American Association of Physics Teachers / office of Scientific Personnel / Carnegie Foundation / Direct Electromotive Force / Parsons College / National Science Foundation / Drake University / Atomic Energy Commission / Iowa State Teachers College / University of Colorado / University of Northern Iowa / Department of Physics / Naval Postgraduate School / Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania / Department of Natural Philosophy / Simpson College / National Academy of Science / the University of Chicago / Manhattan Project / National Bureau of Standards / Iowa Academy of Science / Westmar College / /
Person
W.A. Anthony / Gerald W. Fox / Frank F. Almy (Grinell) / L. Begeman / Lee Paul Sieg / Robert M. Bowie / W.S. Franklin / Robert D. Huntoon / LeRoy D. Weld / Leonard O. Olsen / Jay W. Woodrow / George W. Stewart / Seth B. Nicholson / Henry Rowland / Louis A. Thurner / F.H. Spedding / Samuel R. Williams / Paul S. Helmick / Harald C. Jensen / Arthus Erskine / J.K. Macomber / Louis B. Spinney / A.A. Veblen / Eugene F. Grossman / Everett R. Collis / Grant O. Gale / Homer H. Seerley / L.W. Andrews / Karl Guthe / Alexander Ellett / Raymond A. Pearson / / /
Position
librarian / president / astronomer / engineer / department head / Professor of Physics / chairman of the department / Professor / director of research / operating engineer / chemist / research scientist / Professor of Physics and Chemistry and Director / physicist / teacher / chairman / Deputy Director / Director / private Iowa colleges / director of solar energy research work / head of physics / physics teacher / head of the physics department / first chairman / long-time physics teacher / /
Iowa Physics Through the Years Lester T. Earls (From Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, Volume 82 No. 1, pg[removed]The ensuing paragraphs will attempt to review the development of physics in Iowa from its early