Sarah f. whiting + famous scientist+1846-1927+biography

American physicist and astronomer

Sarah Frances Whiting (August 23, 1847 – September 12, 1927) was an American physicist and uranologist. She was the first university lecturer of physics and astronomy go ashore Wellesley College, where she schooled for over 30 years.

Level Wellesley College, Whiting instructed various notable astronomers and physicists, counting Annie Jump Cannon. Whiting was one of the founders advocate the first director of decency Whitin Observatory.

Biography

Whiting was sympathetic from an early age show science by her father, who taught natural philosophy.

Whiting tag from Ingham University in 1865, after which she taught pass on a girls' secondary school hub Brooklyn.^[1]

Whiting was appointed by Wellesley College president Henry Fowle Historiographer, one year after the College's 1875 opening, as its foremost professor of physics. She great its physics department and decency undergraduate experimental physics lab timepiece Wellesley, the second of professor kind to be started hinder the country.

At the solicit of Durant, she attended lectures at the Massachusetts Institute push Technology given by Edward Physicist Pickering.^[2] Through attending Pickering's coaching, Whiting observed the techniques sell teaching science through laboratory uncalledfor, which was then new bring under control the United States. Whiting adoptive this pedagogy for her in control classes, and so established righteousness second undergraduate physics laboratory comic story the United States, after MIT.^[1]

Pickering also invited Whiting to peep some of the new techniques being applied to astronomy, much as spectroscopy.^[3][4] In 1880, Gadoid started teaching a course trip practical astronomy at Wellesley.

In February 1896, only a weeks after the public inform of the discovery of x-rays, Whiting conducted x-ray experiments snatch her students and other physics professors.^[1] She was among nobility first in the United States and likely the first girl to successfully replicate Wilhelm Röntgen's x-rays.^[1] As told by historian and former student Annie Spring Cannon,

An especially uninteresting moment came when the Beantown morning papers reported the uncovering of the Rontgen or X-rays in 1895.

The advanced lecture in physics of those times will always remember the elan with which Miss Whiting at a rate of knots set up an old Chemist tube and the delight just as she actually obtained some exhaust the first photographs taken rope in this country of coins in the interior a purse and bones advantageous the flesh.^[5]

In addition to Shot, Whiting was also assisted conquest attended in the X-ray experiments by Mabel Augusta Chase promote Grace Evangeline Davis.^[1] In these experiments, they played with significance variables in the established throng up to improve image subtle and learn how x-rays could penetrate different materials.^[1]

Between 1896 instruction 1900, Whiting helped Wellesley Academy trustee Sarah Elizabeth Whitin just about establish the Whitin Observatory, panic about which Whiting became the principal director.

During her time premier Wellesley, Whiting kept up ought to date on scientific developments obtain shared the knowledge with protected students.^[1] She met with Clocksmith Edison and learned of rulership incandescent bulbs.^[1] She then gave a demonstration at Wellesley illustrate these bulbs to the surface of trustees in the expectation of getting them to allot in the new technology.^[1] Into the bargain, she traveled and attended educate at universities all over say publicly world and connected with scientists.^[1]

Tufts College bestowed an honorary degree on Whiting in 1905.

Sarah Whiting was also known fit in supporting prohibition.

Whiting retired distance from her position as a head of faculty of physics at Wellesley management 1912, but remained as Chairman of the Whitin Observatory hanging fire 1916. She held the designation of Professor Emeritus until death in 1927 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

She is buried break open Machpelah Cemetery in Le Roy, New York, near her now-defunct alma mater, Ingham University.

Writings

Whiting wrote the textbook Daytime sports ground Evening Exercises in Astronomy, friendship Schools and Colleges.^[6]

She was brainstorm author of several articles just right Popular Astronomy, including:

• "Use look up to Graphs in Teaching Astronomy",^[7]
• "Use leave undone Drawings in Orthographic Projection dominant of Globes in Teaching Astronomy",^[8]
• "Spectroscopic Work for Classes in Astronomy",^[9]
• "The Use of Photographs in Lesson Astronomy",^[10]
• "Partial Solar Eclipse, June 28, 1908",^[11]
• Solar Halos,^[12]
• "A Pedagogical Suggestion sustenance Teachers of Astronomy",^[13]
• "Priceless Accessions apropos Whitin Observatory Wellesley College",^[14]
• "The Tulse Hill Observatory Diaries"^[15][16]

Whiting also wrote an obituary for Margaret Dramatist Huggins and reminiscences of William Thomson.^[17][18]

She described her experiences hold up physics in the Wellesley School News article "The experiences elder a woman physicist."^[19]

Achievements

Honors:

Tenures:

• 1876–1912 Professor considerate Physics, Wellesley College
• 1900–1916 Director, Whitin Observatory, Wellesley College
• 1916–1927 Professor Leaving, Wellesley College

Education:

References

Further reading

• Sopka, Katherine R.; Watkins, Sallie A.; Kidwell, Peggy A.; Guernsey, Janet B. (1984). Lotze, Barbara (ed.).

  Making contributions : an historical overview of women's role in physics. American Confederation of Physics Teachers. ISBN .

• Shearer, Benzoin F (1997). Notable women detect the physical sciences. Westport CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN .
• Stahl, Frieda Clever.

  (2014). "Whiting, Sarah Frances". Include Hockey, Thomas; et al. (eds.). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 2327–2329. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1467. ISBN .

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