Background
George Ernest Gibson was born Edinburgh, Scotland and educated partly in Germany where attended a gymnasium in Darmstadt, finishing his schooling in Edinburgh.
George Ernest Gibson was born Edinburgh, Scotland and educated partly in Germany where attended a gymnasium in Darmstadt, finishing his schooling in Edinburgh.
He studied chemistry at the University of Edinburgh receiving his Bachelor of Science
In 1906. He worked with Otto Lummer at the University of Breslau where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1911, and stayed there as lecturer for two additional years before returning to the University of Edinburgh in 1912.