Francis Eugene Nipher

Francis Eugene Nipher (December 10, 1847 – October 6, 1926) was a United States physicist.

Francis Eugene Nipher
Born	(1847-12-10)December 10, 1847 Port Byron, New York
Died	October 6, 1926(1926-10-06) (aged 78) Kirkwood, Missouri
Education	Iowa State University
Occupation	Physicist
Employer	Washington University in St. Louis
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Biography

Francis Eugene Nipher was born in Port Byron, New York on December 10, 1847.^[1]

He graduated in 1870 from Iowa State University, where he became assistant in physical science. In 1874, he was appointed professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He organized the second state weather service, that of Missouri, in 1877, and for ten years it was maintained without official support. From 1878 until 1883, he conducted a magnetic survey of Missouri, doing the work under private auspices, and publishing the annual reports in the Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences. Nipher was a member of scientific societies, and in 1885 became president of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences.^[1] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1907.^[2]

He died at his home in Kirkwood, Missouri on October 6, 1926.^[3][4]

Publications

His publications, including twenty-five papers on physics, were contributed to the American Journal of Science and to transactions of societies. He is also the author of Theory of Magnetic Measurements (New York, 1886).