About Shirley Leon Quimby
Lived 1893 – 1986 (aged 92). Shirley Leon Quimby was an American physicist and university teacher.
Shirley Leon Quimby (August 21, 1893 – May 15, 1986) was an American physicist.
He graduated from University of California at Berkeley in 1915 and received his PhD in physics at Columbia University in 1925. He served as a professor at Columbia from 1943 and became professor emeritus in 1962.
In 1915 he married fellow student Edith Hinkley, who would later be noted for her contributions to nuclear medicine and radiology.
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American physicist
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Shirley Leon Quimby was born on 21 August 1893 in San Francisco.
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Shirley Leon Quimby died on 15 May 1986 in New York City.
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Shirley Leon Quimby was a physicist and university teacher.
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