History of Succasunna, (Morris County) New Jersey United States of America

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Arthur Lalanne Kimball - A Biography

Arthur Lalanne Kimball, educator, was born at Succasunna Plains, N.J., Oct. 16, 1856; son of Horace and Mary (Fisher) Kimball, and grandson of James Kimball of Newburyport, Mass., and of the Rev. Samuel and Alice (Cogswell) Fisher. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1881; was a fellow in science there, 1881-89, and a fellow at Johns Hopkins university in 1882. He carried on experiments, in 1888-84, under Professor Rowland at Johns Hopkins for determining the unit of electrical resistance, under an appropriation made by the U.S. government, and received from that institution the degree of Ph.D. in 1884. He was married in 1884 to Lucilla P. Scribner, of Plainfield, N.J. He was an associate and an associate professor of physics at Johns Hopkins, 1884-91, and was elected professor of physics at Amherst college, Mass., in 1891. He is the author of: Physical Properties of Gases (1890), and contributions to scientific periodicals.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor