Frank Perkins Whitman (1853–1919), was an American physicist

Biography

Whitman was born in

Troy, New York Troy is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Rensselaer County. The city is located on the western edge of Rensselaer County and on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. Troy has close ties to the nearby cities of Albany a ...

on July 29, 1853. He was graduated at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1874 and took his A.M. there in 1877, later studying at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. He was professor of physics at

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

, Troy, in 1880–1886, and from 1886 occupied the same position at the

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. He was a contributor to scientific periodicals.

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* 1853 births 1919 deaths People from Troy, New York Brown University alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty Case Western Reserve University faculty Physicists from New York (state) {{US-physicist-stub