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About Joseph Sweetman Ames
Joseph Sweetman Ames
- Birth: Jul. 3, 1864, Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, USA
- Death: Jun. 24, 1943, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
- Joseph Sweetman Ames (July 3, 1864 – June 24, 1943) was a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 until 1929, and university president from 1929 until 1935.[2]
He was born at Manchester, Vermont. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor of NASA) and its longtime chairman (1919–1939). NASA Ames Research Center is named after him. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911.[3] He was the 1935 recipient of the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution.
Ames was also an assistant editor of Astrophysical Journal and associate editor of the American Journal of Science; editor-in-chief of the Scientific Memoir Series; and editor of J. von Fraunhofer's memoirs on Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra (1898).
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- bio from the Hopkins website:
- "Ames Hall was ... built in 1953-1954, with funds provided by the state of Maryland. It was dedicated in honor of Joseph S. Ames on May 15, 1955. Ames, who spent his entire academic career at Hopkins (AB 1896, PhD 1890, faculty 1898-1935, dean 1924-1929, provost 1926-1929, and president of the University from 1929 to 1935), was known primarily for his pioneering work in organizing the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA. Originally used by the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Astrophysics, and Sanitary Engineering, Ames Hall was completely renovated between 1986 and 1988 and now houses the Departments of Psychology and of Geography and Environmental Engineering."
- The NASA Ames Research Center was named after him
- Spouse:
- Mary Boykin Ames (Williams) (1851 - 1931)*
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Joseph Sweetman Ames's Timeline
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July 3, 1864
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Vermont, United States
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| 1943 |
June 24, 1943
Age 78
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Saint Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Maryland, USA
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