Henry A. Bumstead
Henry A. Bumstead | |
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Portray from 1914 | |
| Born | March 12, 1870 Pekin, Illinois, USA |
| Died | December 31, 1920 (aged 50) On a train between Chicago and Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University Yale University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Josiah Willard Gibbs Henry Augustus Rowland |
| Doctoral students | Leigh Page Harry Nyquist John Stuart Foster |
Henry Andrews Bumstead (March 12, 1870 – December 31, 1920) was an American physicist who taught at Yale from 1897 to 1920. In 1918 he was scientific attache to the United States embassy in London. In 1920 he was Chairman of the National Research Council.