Shirley Leon Quimby (August 21, 1893 – May 15, 1986) was an American physicist. He graduated from

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in 1915 and received his PhD in physics at

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in 1925. He served as a professor at Columbia from 1943 and became professor emeritus in 1962. In 1915 he married fellow student Edith Hinkley, who would later be noted for her contributions to

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and

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Finding aid to the Shirley Leon Quimby Papers at Columbia University
Rare Book & Manuscript Library 20th-century American physicists 1893 births 1986 deaths Scientists from San Francisco Scientists from California University of California, Berkeley alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society Recipients of the Legion of Merit Members of the New York Yacht Club {{US-physicist-stub