Samuel Jackson Barnett
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Samuel Jackson Barnett (December 14, 1873 – May 22, 1956) was an American
physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
. He was a
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at the
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. Barnett was born in Woodson County, Kansas, the son of a minister. In 1894, he received a B.A. in physics from the
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and received his Ph.D. from
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in 1898. From 1898 to 1918 he taught at several universities: Colorado College, Stanford University, Tulane University, and Ohio State University. In 1903 he published his book ''Elements of Electromagnetic Theory'', which he dedicated to his friend Professor Francis H. Smith at the University of Virginia. From 1918 to 1926 he worked at the
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in Washington, DC. In 1926 he was a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Barnett worked mainly on
electromagnetism In physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge. It is the second-strongest of the four fundamental interactions, after the strong force, and it is the dominant force in the interactions of ...
, and discovered the Barnett effect. His wife, Mrs. Lelia Jefferson Harvie Barnett, was a scientific co-collaborator, and together they worked in a magnetic metal-free lab at the California Institute of Technology from 1924 to 1953. He was elected a Fellow of the
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in 1921. Barnett died in Pasadena, California, about a month after the death of his wife, Lelia Jefferson Harvie Barnett. They had no children, but their adopted daughter, Ann, also died shortly after Barnett's retirement from the university.


Works

* Elements of electro-magnetic theory, 1903 * Theories of magnetism, 1923 * Le Magnetisme, 1940


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barnett, Samuel Jackson 1873 births 1956 deaths American physicists Cornell University alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Woodson County, Kansas University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Denver alumni