Background
Bird, James Malcolm was born on September 2, 1886 in at Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Gedney and Elizabeth (Baltz) Bird.
Bird, James Malcolm was born on September 2, 1886 in at Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Gedney and Elizabeth (Baltz) Bird.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1913, graduate work in mathematics, Columbia, 1913-1916.
Assistant in mathematics, Columbia, 1914-1916. Instructor mathematics, Cooper Union, 1914-1915. Instructor in same, extension courses, Columbia, 1915-1922.
Associate editor Scientific American, 1916-1924.
Managing editor, 1924. Research officer American Society for Psychical Research, 1925-1931.
Secretary committee of judges in the Eugene Higgins $5,000 prize contest for best popular essay on Einstein theories, 1920-1921. Secretary to committee of judges in Scientific American investigation of psychic phenomena, 1922-1924.
Author: Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation, 1921.
My Psychic Adventures, 1923. Margery the Medium, 1925. Proceedings, A. Singapore Polytechnic R., 1926, 27, 28.
Home: Scotch Plains, New Jersey *.
Married Katherine Alice Montgomery, of Louisville, Kentucky, August 28, 1915.