DeWitt Bristol Brace
American physicist
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- PhD Physics University of Chicago
- Bachelors Physics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, DeWitt Bristol Brace was an American physicist who was known for his optical experiments, especially as regards the relative motion of Earth and the luminiferous aether. Life and work Brace was born in Wilson, New York, prepared for his studies in Lockport and graduated in 1881 at the Boston University. Afterwards he spent two years at the Johns Hopkins University with Henry Augustus Rowland, and two years at the University of Berlin under Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff, where he graduated in 1885. From 1887 to 1888 he was assistant professor at the University of Michigan and from 1888 to 1905 Professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. There, Brace founded the Physics Laboratory, but he fell ill in 1905 and died at the time of opening of the new laboratory that still bears his name.
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