Shirley Leon Quimby (August 21, 1893 – May 15, 1986) was an American physicist. He graduated from

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

in 1915 and received his PhD in physics at

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in 1925. He served as a professor at Columbia from 1943 and became professor emeritus in 1962. In 1915 he married fellow student Edith Hinkley, who would later be noted for her contributions to

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and

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Finding aid to the Shirley Leon Quimby Papers at Columbia University
Rare Book & Manuscript Library American physicists 20th-century American physicists 1893 births 1986 deaths People from San Francisco Scientists from California University of California, Berkeley alumni Columbia University alumni Columbia University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society Recipients of the Legion of Merit Members of the New York Yacht Club {{US-physicist-stub