Perley Ason Ross


Perley Ason Ross was a U.S. experimental physicist who worked, carefully and without seeking publicity, at some essential problems in the behaviour of X-rays.
Born in Panacea, Missouri he was awarded his PhD from Stanford University in 1911, becoming a full professor there in 1927, after a year at Cornell University.
Some of his principal studies included:
His daughter, Betsy, married fellow Stanford physicist William Webster Hansen.