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Joseph Sweetman Ames ( Libraries Special Collections, MS.061.

He was born at Manchester, Vermont . He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor of NASA ) and its longtime chairman ( 1919 - 1939 ). NASA Ames Research Center is named after him.


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  • ''The Theory of Physics'' (1897)

  • ''Elements of Physics'' (1900)

  • ''The Induction of Electric Currents'' (two volumes, 1900)

  • ''Text-Book of General Physics'' (1904)

  • Mr. Ames was also an assistant editor of ''Astro-Physical Journal'' and associate editor of the ''American Journal of Science''; editor-in-chief of the ''Scientific Memoir Series''; and editor of J. Von Fraunhofer's memoirs on ''Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra'' (1898).



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  title President of the Johns Hopkins University
  years July 1929 &ndash June 1935
  before Frank Goodnow