Edwin Plimpton Adams Explained

Edwin Plimpton Adams
Birth Date:	23 January 1878
Birth Place:	Prague, Bohemia-Moravia
Death Place:	Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Mathematics Physics
Workplaces:	Princeton University
Alma Mater:	Harvard University

Edwin Plimpton Adams (Prague, 23 January 1878^[1] – Princeton, New Jersey, 31 December 1956) was an American physicist known for translating Einstein's lectures. Clinton Joseph Davisson attended his lectures. Adams was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1915.^[2]

Works

• Book: Edwin Plimpton . Adams . Edwin Plimpton Adams . Richard Lionel . Hippisley . Alfred George . Greenhill . Alfred George Greenhill . Smithsonian Mathematical Formulae and Tables of Elliptic Functions . 74 . 1 . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 1922 . . Washington D.C., USA . 2016-04-17. (NB. A significant number of entries of this book were later included in Iosif Moiseevich Ryzhik's integral table Tables of integrals, sums, series and products (Таблицы интегралов, сумм, рядов и произведений) in 1945.)

Further reading

• Nekrolog . A. G. . Shenstone . . 125 . 1957 . 3243 . 339 . 10.1126/science.125.3243.339 . 17794440 .

External links

• • • • Mathematical formulae prepared by Edwin P. Adams
• Edwin Plimpton Adams Papers, 1900–1945: Finding Aid

Notes and References

1. Book: Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939. 1976. Gale Research Co.. Detroit. 0810310414. 7. Adams, Edwin Plimpton. https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoamongno0001unse/page/7.
2. Web site: APS Member History . 2023-10-31 . search.amphilsoc.org.