About Bergen Davis
Lived 1869 – 1958 (aged 89). Bergen Davis was an American physicist.
Bergen Davis (March 31, 1869 – June 30, 1958) was an American physicist and a professor at Columbia University.
Davis was born March 31, 1869, near Whitehouse, New Jersey, son of John Davis, a farmer, and Katherine Dilts Davis. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1896 and was awarded a master's degree by Columbia University in 1900 and a Ph.D. in 1901, after which he studied in Europe for two years on a John Tyndall Fellowship under J. J. Thomson and others.
Davis married Marie Clark in 1927. He died on June 30, 1958.
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American physicist (1869–1958)
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