About John Adam Fleming
Lived 1877 – 1956 (aged 79). John Adam Fleming was an American physicist and geophysicist.
John Adam Fleming (January 28, 1877 – July 29, 1956) was an American geophysicist interested in the magnetosphere and the atmospheric electricity.
Fleming worked first at the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey with his superior Louis Agricola Bauer, who founded the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He steadily advanced in the hierarchy of the institute and became its director in 1935. In 1925, Fleming served as president of the Philosophical Society of Washington. Fleming was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 1940.
He was one of the main organizers of the Washington Conferences on Theoretical Physics (1935–1947) with George Gamow.
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American physicist
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John Adam Fleming was born on 28 January 1877 in Cincinnati.
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John Adam Fleming died on 29 July 1956 in San Mateo.
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John Adam Fleming was a physicist and geophysicist.
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