Person:Joseph Ames (13)

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Joseph Sweetman Ames (July 3, 1864 – June 24, 1943) was a physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 to 1929, and university president from 1929 to 1935. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor of NASA) and its longtime chairman (1919–1939). NASA Ames Research Center is named after him. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911. He was the 1935 recipient of the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution.

Ames was also an assistant editor of The Astrophysical Journal and associate editor of the American Journal of Science; editor-in-chief of the Scientific Memoir Series; and editor of Joseph von Fraunhofer's memoirs on Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra (1898).

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Joseph Sweetman Ames: The Man.

   American Journal of Physics 12, 135 (1944);
   https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1990567
   N. Ernest Dorsey
   
   "John Ames (1647--1726) married Sarah Willis in 1670. They had several sons, from one of whom, John (1672-1735), who married Sarah Morgan, came Joseph Sweetman Ames, the subject of this article."
   
   It seems the latter is the wrong John Ames.

3. ↑ Vermont, United States. Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765-1908. (FamilySearch Record Search).

   Name: Joseph Ames
   Sex: Male
   Birth Date: 3 Jul 1864
   Birthplace: Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States
   Birthplace (Original): Manchester Twp, Bennington, Vermont, United States
   Father's Name: George Ames
   Mother's Name: Lizza
   
   
   "Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765-1908", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8LK-8FW : 16 December 2019), George Ames in entry for Joseph Ames, 1864.