Edwin Plimpton Adams

Edwin Plimpton Adams (Prague, 23 January 1878[1]Princeton, New Jersey, 31 December 1956) was an American physicist. Clinton Joseph Davisson attended his lectures.

Edwin Plimpton Adams
Born(1878-01-23)January 23, 1878
DiedDecember 31, 1956(1956-12-31) (aged 78)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Physics
InstitutionsPrinceton University

Works

  • Adams, Edwin Plimpton; Hippisley, Richard Lionel (1922). Greenhill, Alfred George (ed.). Smithsonian Mathematical Formulae and Tables of Elliptic Functions. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 74 (1 ed.). Washington D.C., USA: Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-04-17. (NB. A significant number of entries of this book were later included in Iosif Moiseevich Ryzhik's integral table Tables of integrals, sums, series and products (Таблицы интегралов, сумм, рядов и произведений) in 1945.)

Further reading

References

  1. "Adams, Edwin Plimpton". Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939. Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1976. p. 7. ISBN 0810310414.


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