Background
Barnett, Samuel Jackson was born on December 14, 1873 in Woodson County, Kansas, United States. Son of Review James (Doctor of Divinity) and Margaret Lees (Duff) B.
Barnett, Samuel Jackson was born on December 14, 1873 in Woodson County, Kansas, United States. Son of Review James (Doctor of Divinity) and Margaret Lees (Duff) B.
Brother of James D. Barnett. Bachelor of Arts, University of Denver, 1894. Graduate School of Astronomy, University of Virginia, 1896.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1898.
Instructor physics and biology, University of Denver, 1894-1895. Assistant in Observatory, University of Virginia, 1895-1896. University scholar, later President White fellow Cornell Univercity, 1896-1898.
Instructor, assistant professor, and professor physics, Colorado College, 1898-1900, Stanford, 1900-1905, Tulane, 1905-1911, Ohio State University, 1911-1918. Physicist, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1918-1926 (department of terrestrial magnetism, 1918-1924. Research associate, 1924-1926).
Professor of physics, University of California at Los Angeles since 1926, emeritus since 1944. Research associate California Institute of Technology since 1924. Magnetic observer United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1902-1904.
Member international Reunion d’ Etudes sur le Magnetisme, Strasbourg, 1939. Member National Research Council, 1922-1924, (also. Fellow American Association for Advancement of Science (member Executive Committee Pacific Division, 1927-1934), American Physical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member American Geophysical Union, Philosophical Society Washington, Sigma Xi (Cornell) (president California-Los Angeles Chapter, 1933-1934), Phi Beta Kappa (University of Virginia). Club: Athenaeum of California Institute Technology.
Married Lelia Jefferson Harvie, July 30, 1904.