Theodore Lyman IV

Theodore Lyman IV (

Lyman became an assistant professor in physics at Harvard, where he remained, becoming full professor in 1917, and where he was also director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory (1908–17). He made important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies.

Military service

During

Legacy/honors

• He was the
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• The crater Lyman on the far side of the Moon is named after him.
• He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1901.^[1]
• He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1917.^[2]
• He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1918.^[3]
• He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1931.
• The Lyman Laboratory of Physics at Harvard University is named after him.

Affiliations

He became a hereditary member of the

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
  New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help
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• USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Feature Information
• 1931 Frederic Ives Medal

External links

• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir