The New International Encyclopædia/Ames, Joseph Sweetman

AMES, Joseph Sweetman (1864—). An American physicist and educator, born at Manchester. Vt. He graduated in 1S86 at the Johns Hopkins University, and became professor of physics there. He was elected an honorary member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, has edited (New York, 189S) J. von Fraunhofer's memoirs on Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra, and has published The Theory of Physics (1897), Elements of Physics (1900). and The Induction, of Electric Currents (2 volumes, 1900).