Background
Briggs, Lyman James was born on May 7, 1874 in Assyria, Michigan, United States. Son of Chauncey L. and Isabella (McKelvey) Briggs.
Briggs, Lyman James was born on May 7, 1874 in Assyria, Michigan, United States. Son of Chauncey L. and Isabella (McKelvey) Briggs.
Bachelor of Science, Michigan State College, 1893, Doctor of Science, 1932. Master of Science, University of Michigan, 1895, Doctor of Laws, 1936. Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins 1901.
Doctor of Engineering, South Dakot School Mines, 1935.
Doctor of Science, George Washington University, 1937. Georgetown University, 1939.
Columbia, 1944.
In charge Physical Laboratory Division (now Bureau Soils), United States Department of Agriculture, 1896-1906. Physicist in charge Biophysics Laboratory, Bureau Plant Industry, 1906-1912, in charge biophysics investigations, 1912-1920. Detailed to Bureau Standards by executive order, 1917-1919, chief division mecahnics and sound, 1920-1933, assistant director research and testing, 1926-1933, director National Bureau, 1933-1945.
Retired, 1945.
Member National Advisory Committee for aeronautics, 1933-1945. Member International Ice Patrol Board, 1933-1945. Member Executive Committee engineering division National.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physics Society (president 1938).
Member National, Washington (president 1917) academics science. Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Member of the United States national committee for international geophysical year. Asarded Magellan medal (with Paul R. Heyl), 1922.
Clubs: Cosmos (president 1922), Federal (president 1928).
Married Katharine East. Cook, December 23, 1896. Children: Mistress Isabel Myers, Albert Cook (deceased).