Arthur Williams Wright
American physicist
Died when: 79 years 102 days (951 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Arthur Williams Wright (September 8, 1836 – December 19, 1915) was an American physicist.Wright spent most of his scientific career at Yale University, where he received the first science Ph.D. awarded outside of Europe.
His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays.He also proved instrumental in securing funding for the first dedicated physics lab building in the United States, the Sloane Physical Laboratory.
Related People
American physicist
American physicist
American physicist
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License