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Colorado, he received his doctorate from Tulane in 1894, and married Elizabeth G. Edwards in 1890 and had one son.
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A History of
Physics in its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of Physical Laboratories
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Storia della fisica elementare con l'evoluzione dei laboratori fisici
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