Шарль Самнер Слихтер 1894
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Charles Sumner Slichter, a professor of mathematicsat the university.
It appears that King began to collaborate with Slichter around 1894.
He may have been motivated to contactSlichter at the suggestion of Chamberlin, who then waspresident of the university and knew both King and Slichter(Ingraham 1972).
King describes the nature of the collaboration in the introduction to his 1899 paper, in which healso mentions Slichter’s paper, published the same year(Slichter 1899):
During our earlier investigations regarding the flow of waterthrough soils, it appeared that if the laws of capillary flowapply to the movements of water and of air through soil, itought to be possible to arrive at the sizes of soil grains froma knowledge of the flow of water through the samples underknown conditions.
Such great difficulties, however, wereencountered in duplicating results with water that air wassubstituted as the medium whose flow was to be measured
The handling of the air proved so much simpler and expedi-tious and results could be duplicated so closely that in 1894the plan was laid before Professor Slichter for his judgmentas to the possibility of placing the method on a quantitative basis.
This seemed to him possible, and he kindly consentedto undertake a preliminary investigation, which resulted inthe formula for computing the effective sizes of soil grains,presented in the first portion of his paper in this volume.
When it was found that computed results agreed with obser-vations more closely than had been hoped at first, a returnwas made to water as a means of checking the accuracy ofthe method and the formula. It was found that the flow ofwater used in the formula gave results quite comparable withthose computed from air.
At this stage Mr. Newell [USGS] proposed, in 1896, toassist financially in an investigation of the movement ofground water, and the writer consented to undertake the work,with permission to secure Professor Slichter’s services in thedevelopment of certain theoretical phases of the subject.
Slichter received a B.S. in mathematics from North-western University in 1885, becoming an instructor inmathematics in 1886 and then an assistant professor (1889)and professor (1892) at the University of Wisconsin.
Herose up the ranks to department chairman (1902) and wasdean of the graduate school from 1920 until he retired fromthe university in 1934.
Although he worked for the USGSduring some summers, he spent his entire career at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, marrying a local girl, living in ahouse close to campus and raising four sons (Wang 1987;Ingraham 1972).
He died in Madison in 1946 and is buriedthere.
Slichter Hall on campus is named in his honor andone of Slichter’s quotes—“We are all mentioned in thewills of Homer and Shakespeare.”—is emblazoned on theside of Memorial Library.
His portrait hangs in the recep-tion room of the University Club, an institution he helpedfound and where he was active for many years.
http://www.uwex.edu/wgnhs/pdfs/miscpdf/wiscgw.pdf Интересно, что книга Л.C.Лейбензона вышла ровно в конце 40-х годов
Причем Лейбензон пишет об С.Слихтере, а он - Шарль
Я с института думал, что Слихтер - немец из Германии
Л.C.Лейбензон cотрудничал с лабораторией ядерной геофизики (как и Флеров)
Отправлено: 26.12.08 03:11. Заголовок: Шарль Самнер Слихтер и теория течения через укладки сфер (1894-99) Charles Sumner Slichter
