Henry Andrews Bumstead
Henry Andrews Bumstead (March 12, 1870 – December 31, 1920) was an American physicist who taught at Yale University, Yale from 1897 to 1920. In 1918 he was scientific attache to the United States embassy in London. In 1920 he was Chairman of the National Research Council (United States), National Research Council. Education Henry was a high school student in Decatur, Illinois. In 1887 he went to Johns Hopkins University, initially as a student in a pre-medical program. He studied mathematics with Fabian Franklin and took up an interest in that subject. He studied physics with Henry Augustus Rowland and found his calling there. In 1891 he obtained the bachelor's degree and continued at Johns Hopkins as an assistant in the physics laboratory and a graduate student. He studied thermodynamics, electrostatics, and the electromagnetic theory of light. Career Henry Bumstead became an instructor at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1893, working with Charles S. Hast ...
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Pekin, Illinois
Pekin () is a city in and the county seat of Tazewell County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, Pekin is the largest city of Tazewell County and the second most populous municipality of the Peoria metropolitan area, after Peoria itself. As of the 2010 census, its population is 34,094.United States Census
Retrieved 18 June 2012 A small portion of the city limits extend into . It is the most populous municipality in the United States with the name Pekin. It is a suburb of Peoria and is part of the Peoria Metropolitan Statisti ...
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