Joseph Sweetman Ames, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1864
Place of Birth: Manchester, Vermont, United States
Date of Death: 24-Jun-1943
Profession: physicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Joseph Sweetman Ames
- Joseph Sweetman Ames (July 3, 1864 – June 24, 1943) was a physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 until 1929, and university president from 1929 until 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 J.
- von Fraunhofer's memoirs on Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra (1898).
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