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American astrophysicist
John Quincy Stewart
(September 10, 1894 – March 19, 1972) was an American
astrophysicist
.
He obtained his Ph.D. in
physics
from
Princeton University
in 1919. He taught
astrophysics
at Princeton from 1921 until he retired in 1963.
[1]
Stewart was a civilian aeronautical engineer, an Army 1st Lieutenant, and later served as a chief instructor in the Army Engineering School, during
World War I
. He was later a research engineer in the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. He became interested in social physics in 1946, (first investigated in 1693 by
astronomer
Edmond Halley
), demonstrating the use of physical laws in the area of social sciences,
[2]
for example,
demographic gravitation
.
[3]
He co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with
Raymond Smith Dugan
and
Henry Norris Russell
:
Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy
(Ginn & Co., Boston, 1926–27, 1938, 1945). This became the standard astronomy textbook for about two decades. There were two volumes: the first was
The Solar System
and the second was
Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy
.
References
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Stewart, John W. (June 1972).
"John Q. Stewart"
.
Physics Today
.
25
(6): 75.
Bibcode
:
1972PhT....25f..75S
.
doi
:
10.1063/1.3070913
.
- ^
Vecchia, Karla J., John Q. Stewart Papers (C0571)1907–1970s
A Finding Aid, Manuscripts Division
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
2004
"John Q. Stewart Papers"
. Archived from
the original
on 2007-06-10
. Retrieved
2007-10-22
.
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Stewart, John Q., "Demographic Gravitation: Evidence and Applications", Sociometry, Vol. 11, No. 1/2. (February – May, 1948), pp. 31–58.
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