Background
Thompson, Joseph Osgood was born on July 29, 1863 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Eaton) Thompson.
Thompson, Joseph Osgood was born on July 29, 1863 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Eaton) Thompson.
Student Thayer Academy, South. Braintree, Massachusetts, 1878-1879. Bachelor of Arts, Amherst College, 1884. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Strassburg, Germany, 1891.
Courtesy fellow, Yale, 1920.
Teacher of science, Park College, Parkville, Missouri, 1884-1886. Assistant in physics, Amherst College, 1886-1887, instructor in mathematics, 1887-1889. Instructor in physics, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1891-1894.
Associate professor physics, Amherst College, 1894-1918, professor, 1918-1928, emeritus professor, since 1928.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society. Member Phi Beta Kappa. Club: Faculty. Established law of elastic lengthening in metals.
Married Lulu Lester Burbank, May 22, 1912. Children: Rebecca Burbank, Samuel Mountfort.