George Frederick Barker
George Frederick Barker (July 14, 1835, in
physiological chemistry and toxicology, and later was a professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1879–1900, when he became emeritus professor. He served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1879; president of the American Chemical Society; vice-president of the American Philosophical Society (elected 1873)[3] for 10 years; a member of the United States Electrical Commission; and for several years an associate editor of the American Journal of Science
. He lectured in many cities and wrote a Text-Book of Elementary Chemistry (1870); a Physics (1892); and more.
In a history of the University of Pennsylvania published upon its bicentennial in 1940, the historian Edward Potts Cheyney recalled the piecemeal entry of women into the university, initially as auditors only, and noted, as Cheyney himself witnessed, that "in the lectures on physics in 1881 two young women sat meekly in a distant corner while Professor Barker was describing the new inventions of the electric light and telephone."[4]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- archive.org
- ^ Holland, William Jacob (c. 1901), History of the University of Pittsburgh, pp. 8–10, retrieved 2010-01-13
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ Cheyney, Edward Potts (1940). History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 304.
External links
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