| Shirley Leon Quimby | |
| Birth Date: | 21 August 1893 |
| Thesis Title: | On the experimental determination of the viscosity of vibrating solids |
| Thesis Year: | 1925 |
| Awards: | Fellow of the APS (1931)[1] |
Shirley Leon Quimby (August 21, 1893 – May 15, 1986) was an American physicist.He graduated from University of California at Berkeley in 1915 and received his PhD in physics at Columbia University 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 nuclear medicine and radiology.