About Perley Ason Ross
Lived 1883 – 1939 (aged 55). Perley Ason Ross was a physicist.
Perley Ason Ross (6 April 1883 – 13 March 1939) was a U.S. experimental physicist who worked, carefully and without seeking publicity, at some essential problems in the behaviour of X-rays.
Born in Panacea, Missouri he was awarded his PhD from Stanford University in 1911, becoming a full professor there in 1927, after a year at Cornell University. and Radiative Auger effect.
His daughter, Betsy, married fellow Stanford physicist William Webster Hansen.
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Who was Perley Ason Ross?
American physician (1883-1939)
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Perley Ason Ross was born on 6 April 1883.
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Perley Ason Ross died on 13 March 1939.
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Perley Ason Ross was a physicist.
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