Biography
Page was born October 13, 1884, in South Orange, New Jersey to Edward Day Page & Nina Lee. He came to the Sheffield Scientific School “Sheff” at Yale in 1909 as an assistant professor in drawing and graduate student under Henry Andrews Bumstead. He switched to physics in 1912, was appointed assistant professor of physics in 1916, and professor of mathematical physics in 1922, where he remained until his death in 1952. Devoting most of his time to teaching, Page conducted research and wrote several textbooks, which appeared in various editions, often with the assistance of colleague Norman I. Adams, Jr. In 1967 Yale University sponsored the first of his namesake Leigh Page Prize Lectures, an honor since bestowed on several Nobel laureates and other notable physicists.
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