Samuel Jackson Barnett

Samuel Jackson Barnett (December 14, 1873 – May 22, 1956) was an American physicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Barnett was born in Woodson County, Kansas, the son of a minister.

From 1918 to 1926 he worked at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. In 1926 he was a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Barnett worked mainly on electromagnetism, and discovered the Barnett effect. His wife, Mrs. Lelia Jefferson Harvie Barnett, was a scientific co-collaborator, and together they worked in a magnetic metal-free lab at the California Institute of Technology from 1924 to 1953.

Barnett died in Pasadena, California, about a month after the death of his wife, Lelia Jefferson Harvie Barnett. They had no children, but their adopted daughter, Ann, also died shortly after Barnett's retirement from the university.

Works

Elements of electro-magnetic theory, 1903 Theories of magnetism, 1923 Le Magnetisme, 1940