| Louis Vessot King | |
| Birth Date: | 18 April 1886 |
| Birth Place: | Toronto |
| Death Date: | 6 June 1956 |
| Fields: | Physics |
| Workplaces: | McGill University |
| Alma Mater: | McGill University University of Cambridge |
Louis Vessot King (1886–1956) was a Canadian academic and physicist.[1]
L. V. King received from McGill University B.A. in 1905 and D.Sc. in 1915 and from the University of Cambridge B.A. in 1908 and M.A. in 1913.[1] In the department of physics of McGill University he became a lecturer in 1910, an assistant professor in 1913, an associate professor in 1915, and a full professor (MacDonald Professor of Physics) in 1920, retiring in 1938 as professor emeritus.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1915.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 5 May 1924. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 in Toronto.
King corresponded with Ernest Rutherford, Napier Shaw, Étienne Biéler, and H. T. Barnes.[2]