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Mar 15, 1873 Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1872)
American physicist
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About Noah Ernest Dorsey
- Noah Ernest Dorsey (March 15, 1873 – 1959) was an American physicist, known for his contributions to measurement technology. He was born in Annapolis, Maryland and studied at Johns Hopkins University where he obtained a B.A.
- (1893) and a Ph.D.
- (1897).
- He worked at the same place a few years, was with U.
- S.
- Bureau of Soils and the Department of Agriculture as well, before he eventually joined National Bureau of Standards (1903) where he stayed until retirement in 1943.
- His research was on standards of radioactivity and x-ray measurements (1914–22), becoming the leader of the Radium Section (1921) and publishing a widely used book covering this emerging field, including specifications of his own bodily injuries from interactions with radium and radon.
