Edward Leamington Nichols
Born	September 14, 1854 Leamington, England
Died	November 10, 1937(1937-11-10) (aged 83) West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Awards	Elliott Cresson Medal(1927)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Thomas Edison laboratory Central University of Kentucky University of Kansas Cornell University AAAS American Physical Society NIST
Doctoral advisor	Johann Benedict Listing
Other academic advisors	Hermann von Helmholtz Gustav Kirchhoff[1]
Doctoral students	Ernest Fox Nichols

Edward Leamington Nichols (September 14, 1854 – November 10, 1937) was an American scientist. He was aphysicist and astronomer,^[2] professor of physics atCornell University.^[3]

He was born of American parentage atLeamington, England, and received his education atCornell University, graduating in 1875. After Studying atLeipzig,Berlin, andGöttingen (Ph.D., 1879) he was appointed fellow inphysics atJohns Hopkins. He then spent some time in theThomas Edison laboratory atMenlo Park, New Jersey, and subsequently becameprofessor of physics andchemistry in theCentral University of Kentucky (1881), professor of physics andastronomy at theUniversity of Kansas (1883), and professor of physics atCornell University (1887).

In 1904, he was elected as a member to theAmerican Philosophical Society.^[4] He was elected a member of theNational Academy of Sciences, waspresident of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (1907) and of theAmerican Physical Society (1907–08), an Honorary Member ofThe Optical Society of America (1916), and served as a member of the visiting committee of theUnited States Bureau of Standards. The degrees of LL.D. and Sc.D. were conferred on Professor Nichols by theUniversity of Pennsylvania andDartmouth College respectively. He was the author of several college textbooks on physics. In 1927 he was awarded theFranklin Institute'sElliott Cresson Medal. In 1929 he was awarded the firstFrederic Ives Medal by theOSA.^[5]

He was adviser of numerous outstanding scientists in Cornell University includingErnest Nichols,Arthur Foley,^[6]Rolla Roy Ramsey, andFloyd R. Watson. His Ph.D adviser wasJohann Benedict Listing^[7] inGeorg-August-Universität Göttingen.

• A laboratory manual of physics and applied electricity v. 1 (New York : Macmillan, 1894)
• A laboratory manual of physics and applied electricity v. 2 (New York : Macmillan, 1894)
• The galvanometer : a series of lectures ( New York : McIlroy & Emmet, 1894)
• The elements of physics. A college text-book v. 1. Mechanics and heat (New York : Macmillan, 1896)
• The elements of physics. A college text-book v. 2. Electricity and magnetism (New York : Macmillan, 1896)
• The elements of physics. A college text-book v. 3. Light and sound (New York : Macmillan, 1896)
• The outlines of physics: an elementary text-book (New York : Macmillan, 1897)
• Questions and exercises to be used in connection with Outlines of physics, an elementary text-book (New York : Macmillan, 1897)
• Studies in luminescence ( Washington DC, Carnegie Institution, 1912)
• Fluorescence of the uranyl salts ( Washington DC, Carnegie Institution, 1919)
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• Edward Leamington Nichols—Biographical Memoirs of theNational Academy of Sciences

E. L. Nichols and thePhysical Review

• Founding of the Physical Review Cornell University, Ithaca New York

Obituaries

• Ernest Merritt,Edward Leamington Nichols,Physical Review,53, 1 (1938).
• Edward L. Nichols: 1854-1937, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science,42, 51 (1939)
• Ernest Merritt,Biographical memoir of Edward Leamington Nichols, Biographical memoirs of the National Academy of the Sciences,21 (1940)

• Edward Nichols reprints, 1879-1930, Niels Bohr Library & Archives

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