William Francis Magie
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
William Francis Magie (1858–1943) was an American physicist, a founder of the American Physical Society (president from 1910 to 1912) and the first professor of physics at Princeton University, where he had graduated (class valedictorian, 1879) and where he served for two decades as dean of the faculty. His papers on the contact angle of liquids and solids and on the specific heat of solutions were notable, as was his text Principles of Physics.[1] He was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society (1896).[2]
Personal views
Magie served as the president of the Men's Anti-Suffrage League of New Jersey.[3] In this capacity, he argued that women's suffrage would ruin the family structure, destroy gender roles, and "undermine civilization."[3]
Selected works
- Magie, William Francis, editor, translator. (1899). The Second Law of Thermodynamics at Google Books: Memoirs by Carnot, Clausius and Thomson.
- Magie, William Francis. (1911). Principles of physics, designed for use as a textbook of general physics. New York: Century. Principles of physics at Google Books
- Magie, William Francis. (1935). A Source Book in Physics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Includes selections and translations of classic works in physics. A source book in physics at Google Books
Notes
- ^ Leitch, Alexander (1978). "Magie, William Francis". A Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ a b Mappen, Marc (1990-10-14). "JERSEYANA". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
External links
Categories:
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with ZBMATH identifiers
- Articles with PIC identifiers
- Articles with Trove identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- American physicists
- 1858 births
- 1943 deaths
- Princeton University alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- Presidents of the American Physical Society
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- American anti-suffragists