Loomis

Loomis, ELIAS, an American physicist, was born at Willington, Connecticut, 7th August 1811, graduated at Yale in 1830, and was tutor there in 1833-36. After a year's study in Paris he was professor (1837-44) of Mathematics in Western Reserve College, Ohio, of Natural Philosophy (1844-60) in the University of New York, and of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy (from 1860) at Yale. He died 15th August 1889. Professor Loomis devoted much of his time to original research, was the author of over a hundred scientific treatises, and published a series of text-books on mathematics, natural philosophy, astronomy, and meteorology, of which more than 500,000 copies were sold.