Background
Foley, Arthur Lee was born on February 22, 1867 in Hancock County, Indiana, United States. Son of Mansfield Calvin and Clara Alice (Myers) Foley.
Foley, Arthur Lee was born on February 22, 1867 in Hancock County, Indiana, United States. Son of Mansfield Calvin and Clara Alice (Myers) Foley.
Student Central Normal College, Danville, 1882-1884 (Doctor of Letters, 1941), Hayward College, Fairfield, Illinois, 1886-1887. Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University, 1890, Master of Arts, 1891. University of Chicago, 1894.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell, 1897.
European universities, 1908.
Teacher Public school, Vivalia, Indiana, 1884-1885. Principal Public school, Cleveland, Indiana, 1885-1886, Johnsonville, Illinois, 1887-1888. Instructor physics, Indiana University, 1890-1891, associate professor, 1891-1897, professor and head of department of physics, 1897-1938, emeritus professor since 1938, Waterman research professor, 1917-1925, also chairman bureau of Science Service, 1926-1935.
Director of physics research, Affiliated College of Indiana, 1917-1925.
Chairman research committee Indiana State Council of Defense, 1915-1918. Director United States Radio School, Indiana University, 1918.
Member National Research Council. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Indiana Academy Science (president 1909. Member American Association Physics Teachers, Sigma Xi (president 1892), Phi Beta Kappa (president 1914).
Acoustical engineer, inventor, investigator, author of 90 scientific papers and 4 editions of a physics text.
Married Lorettie Hayworth, April. Children: Ernest Lee, Mistress Eupha May Tugman.