DeWitt B. Brace

(1859-1905) lived in Lincoln. Educator, physicist, researcher known for invention of three precision instruments for measuring light, authored 21 papers and considered one of the leading physicists in the United States by 1900. Consult American National Biography, Vol 3 (Oxford University Press, 1999) 339-340 and David Cahan and M. Eugene Rudd, Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace (University of Nebraska Press, 2000).

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