Arthur Scott King, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arthur Scott King

American astrophysicist

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1876

Place of Birth: Jerseyville, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1957

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Arthur Scott King

  • Arthur Scott King (January 18, 1876 – April 17, 1957) was an American physicist and astrophysicist. He was born in Jerseyville, Illinois, the son of Robert Andrew and Miriam Munson King.
  • In 1883 the family moved to Santa Rosa, California in an attempt to alleviate their son Arthur's chronic asthma.
  • The asthma cleared up, and in 1890 they moved again to Fresno. In 1895 Arthur graduated from Fresno High School, then attended the University of California, Berkeley.
  • He developed an interest in physics, and in 1899 he was admitted into their graduate school.
  • He was awarded a Ph.D.
  • in 1903, the first ever Ph.D.
  • in physics awarded by that university. After winning a Whiting Fellowship, he spent two years in Germany, studying at Bonn and Berlin and travelling in Europe.
  • His academic interests were focused on spectroscopy, and at the time these institutions were leaders in the field. In 1905 he returned to Berkeley and became an instructor.
  • The following year he married Louise Burnett, and the couple would have two sons.
  • The same year he published a paper describing the use of an electric furnace for use in spectroscopy.He was offered a position at Mt.
  • Wilson Observatory in 1907, and took his leave from Berkeley.
  • He spent much of the remainder of his career studying the spectra of elements and molecules, with particular focus on rare-earth elements.
  • He also performed studies of meteors, including their spectra and directional paths.
  • In 1929, he collaborated with Dr.
  • Raymond T.
  • Birge to discover the isotope Carbon-13, based on differences in the spectrum.Between 1901 and his retirement he published well over 200 papers in scientific journals.
  • He served as president of the American Meteorical Society for a period, and also as president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1941.
  • In 1943 he retired, but he became involved in war research at Caltech.
  • There he studied the ballistics of torpedoes launched from aircraft.
  • Finally in 1957, with his health failing, he died in Pasadena, California.
  • The crater King on the far side of the Moon was co-named for him and Edward S.
  • King.

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