Background
Hull, Gordon Ferrie was born on October 7, 1870 in Garnet, Haldimand County, Ontario. Son of John and Jane (Moore) Hull.
physicist scientist university professor
Hull, Gordon Ferrie was born on October 7, 1870 in Garnet, Haldimand County, Ontario. Son of John and Jane (Moore) Hull.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Toronto.1892, fellow in physics. 1892-1895; fellow and assistant in physics University of Chicago, 1895-1897, Doctor of Philosophy, 1897. Cambridge University, 1905-1906.
Studied at English and German universities, 1928-1929.
Hull earned his 1897 doctorate of physics at the University of Chicago and was later a professor of physics there at Colby College. Thereafter (1899–1940), he taught physics at Dartmouth College. In addition, he had a research position at Cambridge University (1905–1906) and taught physics at Columbia University (1909–1915).
As well as his academic career he was conscripted into the army in both World War I (1918–1919) and World World War II (1941–1944) as Major, in the United States. Army Ordnance Department.
He had one son, Gordon Ferrie Hull, Junior.
He is especially famous for his 1903 experiment conducted with Ernest Fox Nichols in which they were the first to demonstrate the radiation pressure exerted by a beam of light. The apparatus is now known as the Nichols radiometer.
Much of this apparatus is now in the Smithsonian, thanks to the generosity of Gordon F. Hull, Junior.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Physical Society, et cetera
Married Wilhelmine Brandt, September 5, 1911.