John Adam Fleming
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1877 – 1956
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Who was John Adam Fleming?
John Adam Fleming, was an American physicist interested in the magnetosphere and the atmospheric electricity. Fleming worked first at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and changed together with his superior Louis Agricola Bauer, who founded the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He steadily advanced in the hierarchy of the institute and became its director in 1935. Fleming was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 1940.
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- Born
- Jan 28, 1877
Cincinnati - Education
- University of Cincinnati
- Died
- Jul 29, 1956
San Mateo
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on July 23, 2013
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