Arthur Williams Wright

Affiliations:	1869-1872	Physics and Chemistry	Williams College, Williamstown, MA, United States
	1872-1906	Physics and Chemistry	Yale University, New Haven, CT

physics and astronomy

(1836 - 1915)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001483.html
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1975IrAJ...12..104H/0000105.000.html
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1860
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1861PhDT.........1W
Arthur Williams Wright held the first Ph.D. in science awarded in the New World. His doctoral dissertation–on satellite mechanics–was one of three, in different fields, accepted by Yale University for the degree in 1861.

Hubert Anson Newton	grad student	1861	Yale
(Having Given the Velocity and Direction of Motion of a Meteor on Entering the Atmosphere of the Earth, to Determine its Orbit about the Sun, Taking Into Account the Attractions of both these Bodies.)
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen	post-doc	1868	Universität Heidelberg (Chemistry Tree)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff	post-doc	1868	Universität Heidelberg
Heinrich Gustav Magnus	post-doc	1869	Universität Berlin
August Wilhelm von Hofmann	post-doc	1869	Universität Berlin (Chemistry Tree)

grad student

1892

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Wright AW. (1885) ELECTRICAL MEASURING INSTRUMENTS. Science (New York, N.Y.). 6: 151-3