Edwin h hall biography of nancy

1. Edwin Hall: The Pioneer of the Hall Effect
2. Early Life and Education
3. Research at Johns Hopkins
4. Discovery of the Hall Effect
5. Significance of the Hall Effect
6. Publication and Legacy

Edwin Hall: The Pioneer of the Hall Effect

Edwin Hall was an American physicist renowned for his discovery of the Hall effect, a fundamental phenomenon in physics and engineering.

Early Life and Education

Born in Gorham, Maine, Edwin Hall pursued his undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, graduating in He furthered his education at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his doctorate in

Research at Johns Hopkins

Hall's doctoral research focused on thermoelectric investigations at Harvard University.

During his experiments at Johns Hopkins, he made his groundbreaking discovery in

Discovery of the Hall Effect

While experimenting with a gold plate mounted on glass, Hall observed a potential

American writer

Nancy Hale (May 6, 1908 – September 24, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. She received the O. Henry Award, a Benjamin Franklin magazine award, and the Henry H. Bellaman Foundation Award for fiction.

Early life and education

Nancy Hale was born in Boston on May 6, 1908. Her parents, Philip Leslie Hale and Lilian Westcott Hale were both painters, and her father was the son of famed speaker and Unitarian minister Edward Everett Hale.

Nancy Hale began writing at an early age, producing a family newspaper, the Society Cat, at age eight, and publishing her first story, "The Key Glorious," in the Boston Herald, at age eleven. She also devoted considerable energy to the study of art under her parents' tutelage.

She graduated from the Winsor School in 1926 and studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and under her father at the Fenway Studios.

Career

Early career

In 1928, Hale moved to New York City with her first husband, where she was hired to work in the art department at Vogue. She was, however, almost immediately put to work as an assistant editor and writer instead. Under the pen name Anne Leslie, she wrote "chatty news" items, fashion news, and editorials. She began writing as a freelancer as well, providing articles and short stories to Scribner's, Harper's, The American Mercury, and Vanity Fair. Her first piece for The New Yorker was published in 1929. Her first novel, The Young Die Good, was published by Scribner's in 1932. Her editor, Maxwell Perkins, called it "a trifle" about Manhattan life but said that "she meant it to be." In 1933, one of her stories,"To the Invader," won the O. Henry Memorial Award Prize. Her second novel, Never Any More, published in 1934, was about the antagonism of three girls whose mothers are friends.^[7

Nancy Matthews Hall, 82 passed away Thursday January 4, 2018.  The family will receive friends Sunday from 2-4pm  at Rogers Pickard Funeral Home.

Nancy was born in Lee County to the late Walter Guy Matthews and Myrtle Douglas Matthews. Nancy had a love for travel and a real passion for Whales and whale watching. She was preceded in death by husbands, Henry Hall and Hans Hamann; sister, Sylvia Matthews and a brother Robert Matthews. Nancy earned her BA Degree and Master’s Degree from UNC Chapel Hill and was a member of the first School of Nursing graduating class at UNC. She started, and taught, the RN Program at CCCC, also taught at Sandhill’s Community College and Durham Tech. she served as director of nursing at Moore Memorial in Pinehurst and at Henry Co Memorial.

Nancy is survived by daughters Beth Hall of Sanford and Angela Hall Gribbins and Husband Scott of Denver; brother John Edward “Ed” Matthews of Mamers; grandchildren Matthew Gribbins, Jonathan Gribbins  and  Andrew Gribbins; and special friend Thomas Dean.

Memorial may be made to Mooseheart 155 S International Drive Mooseheart, IL, 60539; or Shriners Children’s Hospital 950 W Faris Rd, Greenville, SC 29605