Arthur Williams Wright (1836 - 1915) American physicist. The Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale is named for him. He held the first Ph.D in Science awarded in the New World. His doctoral dissertation - on satellite machanics - was one of three, in different fields, accepted by Yale University for the degree in 1861. He taught at Yale, also briefly at Williams College, and returning to Yale in 1872 as Professor of Molecular Physics and Chemistry, retiring in 1906. He has had charge of the Sloane physical laboratory at Yale, which was constructed under his supervision. Professor Wright was the first to observe and describe the electric shadow in 1870-'1, devised a new apparatus for the production of ozone, and investigated its action upon alcohol and ether in 1872-'4; also in 1874 determined the polarization of the zodiacal light, measuring its amount, and investigated its spectrum. He was the first to discover gases in stony meteorites, to extract them and determine their composition, obtaining their spectra in vacuum tubes, and pointing out their relation to the spectra of comets as affording a probable explanation of the latter. In 1877 he devised a method of applying the discharge of electricity in a vacuum to deposit the metal of the electrode upon glass or other surfaces, so as to form brilliant transparent metallic films. Lengthy ANS, New Haven, 1908. Regrets unable to accept invitation from Prof. & Mrs. Woodward to attend meeting of the National Academy in Washington.PICTURE OF HIM IS NOT INCLUDED.

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