Finding Aid to the Edward Nichols reprints, 1879-1930Niels Bohr Library & Archives 1.0 American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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2009 Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Melanie J. Brown in 2007. Any revisions made to this finding aid occurred as part of the editing and encoding process. Finding aid is written in English. Description of the CollectionNichols, E. L. (Edward Leamington), 1854-1937. Edward Nichols reprints 1879-1930 American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. 1 linear feet2 manuscript box(s) AR239 English A collection of reprints of articles authored by Edward Nichols. Selected Search Terms

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Brace, D. B. (De Witt Bristol), 1859-1905. Morton, Henry, 1836-1902 Nichols, E. L. (Edward Leamington), 1854-1937. Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902. Luminescence. Magnetism. Optics. Phosphorescence. Photometry. Salts. Biographical Note

American physicist (1854-1937) Cornell University (1875), Göttingen (Ph.D., 1879). Johns Hopkins, Fellow; Professor of physics and chemistry, Central University of Kentucky (1881); Professor of physics and astronomy, University of Kansas (1883); Professor of physics, Cornell University (1887). Member, National Academy of Sciences; President, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907); President, American Physical Society (1907-1908).

Scope and Contents of Collection

Reprints of articles authored by Edward Nichols. Subjects include: magnetism, luminescence, optics, salts, phosphorescence, and photometry, among others. Also includes biographical memoirs on Henry Morton, DeWitt Bristol Brace, and Ogden Nichols Rood.

 Organization and Arrangement of Collection

This collection is organized into a single series:

Series I: Reprints

This series is arranged chronologically.

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Lara D'Agaro 2007.

Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], Edward Nichols reprints. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

 Container List Series I: Reprints 11 On the destruction of the passivity of iron in nitric acid by magnetization, undated 12 Studies of the lime light, undated 13 A new form of spectrophotometer, undated 14 Ueber das von gluhendem platin ausgestrahlte Licht, 1879 15 On the sensitiveness of the eye to colors of a low degree of saturation, July 1885 16 On the chemical behavior of iron in the magnetic field, April 1886 17 On black and white, November 1886 18 The electromotive force of magnetization, April 1888 19 The personal error in photometry, May 1889 110 A spectro-photometric comparison of sources of artificial illumination, August 1889 111 Note on a new photometer, May 1890 112 On the alternating electric arc between ball and a point, January 1891 113 The influence of temperature on the colours of pigments, November 1891 114 On the character of the light emitted by incandescent zinc oxide, January 1892 115 Note on the selective absorption of light by optical glass and calc-spar, April 1892 116 The age-coating in incandescent lamps, October 1892 117 Some applications of electric heating in physical laboratory practice, June 1893 118 The distribution of energy in the spectrum of the glow-lamp, January-February 1895 119 Standards of light, May 1896 120 Studies of luminescence; V. the luminescence of Sidot blende, October 1905 121 Franklin’s researches in electricity, April 1906 122 Studies of luminescence; VI. The decay of phosphorescence in Sidot blende, May 1906 123 Studies of luminescence; further experiments on the decay of phosphorescence in Sidot blende and certain other substances, July 1906 124 The mechanical equivalent of light, 1906 125 The scientific work of DeWitt Bristol Brace, June 1907 126 Studies of luminescence, November 1907 127 Professor Anthony at Cornell, April 1908 128 Daylight and artificial light, May 1908 129 Theories of the color of the sky, June 1908 130 Studies of luminescence, November 1908 131 Studies of luminescence; IX. The spectrophotometric study of certain cases of kathodo-luminescence, May 1909 132 Science and the practical problems of the future, January 1909 133 A study of the overcast skies, February 1909 134 Biographical memoir of Ogden Nicholas Rood 1831-1902, August 1909 135 Studies of luminescence; XI. The distribution of energy in fluorescence spectra, March 1910 136 The effects of temperature on phosphorescence and fluorescence, 1910 137 Studies of luminescence; XII. The absorption of alchoholic solutions of eosin and resorufin, October 1910 138 Studies of luminescence; XIII. The specific exciting power of the different wavelengths of the visible spectrum in the case of the fluorescence of eosin and resorufin, October 1910 139 Studies of luminescence, November 1910 140 Some notes on the early history of standards of light, December 1910 141 Studies of luminescence; XV. On fluorescence and phosphorescence between + 20 and – 190, January 1911 142 Some recent advances in fluorescence and phosphorescence , May 1911 143 Studies of luminescence, November 1911 21 Daylight, April 1912 22 Studies of luminescence, 1912 23 La lumiere du jour, November 1913 24 Note on the fluorescence of frozen solutions of the uranyl salts, June 1914 25 The luminescence of kunzite, July 1914 26 Biographical memoir of Henry Morton 1836-1902, February 1915 27 A new fluorescence spectrum of uranyl ammonio-chloride, November 1915 28 Note on the phosphorescence of uranyl salts, May 1916 29 A new form of phosphoroscope, June 1916 210 The fluorescence and absorption of certain pleochroic crystals of the uranyl salts, October 1916 211 New data on the phosphorescence of certain sulphides, November 1916 212 Color-photographs of the phosphorescence of certain metallic sulphides, 1916 213 The influence of water of crystallization upon the fluorescence and absorption spectra of uranyl nitrate, February 1917 214 On the phosphorescence of the uranyl salts, April 1917 215 Spectral structure of the phosphorescence of certain sulphides, 1917 216 On the unpolarized fluorescence and absorption of four double chlorides of uranyl, April 1918 217 Types of phosphorescence, Auguts 1918 218 The photoluminescence and kathodoluminescence of calcite, November 1918 219 Fluorescence and absorption of the uranyl acetates, September 1919 220 Fluorescence and absorption of the uranyl sulphates, October 1919 221 Fluorescence of the uranyl salts, 1919 222 Luminescence as a factor in artificial lighting, October 1921 223 On founder’s day, May 1922 224 Report on studies of luminescence, 1925 225 Uranium as an activator, May 1926 226 Note on the rare earths as activators of luminescence, November 1926 227 Links connecting fluorescence and the luminescence of incandescent solids, December 1926 228 On the transformation spectra, March 1927 229 The transformation spectrum of the ruby, February 1929 230 Ozone in luminescence , January 1930 231 Reversible oxidation in luminescence, March 1930 232 Activators in cando-luminescence, March 1930