Lyman James Briggs
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Lyman James Briggs was an American engineer, physicist and administrator. He was the third director of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) during the Great Depression and chairman of the Uranium Committee before America entered the Second World War.
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Briggs (left) received the Magellanic Premium together with Paul R. Heyl in 1922
S-1 Executive Committee at the Bohemian Grove, September 13, 1942. From left to right are Harold C. Urey, Ernest O. Lawrence, James B. Conant, Lyman J. Briggs, E. V. Murphree and Arthur Compton
Briggs in 1954
Briggs and Ossie Bluege, Comptroller of the Washington Baseball Club and formerly third baseman and manager, at Griffith Stadium measuring the spin of a perfectly pitched ball with the aid of a flat measuring tape fastened to the ballAwards 1
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About this person
Lyman James Briggs was an American engineer, physicist and administrator. He was the third director of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) during the Great Depression and chairman of the Uranium Committee before America entered the Second World War. The Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University is named in his honor.
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1874 to 1963 · aged 88
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