University of New Hampshire - Granite Yearbook (Durham, NH)

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1. 1.lI.l lil I- mn, ,Ii We GMM fe lllillarh Eames Zlliaher ILLARD JAMES FISHER was born in 1867 in Waterford, N. Y., the first child of George Fisher and Ellen Hunter W1'igl1t. His parents lived in Troy, in Albany, and, after his father had -become a priest of the Episcopal church, in Stockport, N. Y. The pastorate there lasted eighteen years, and the eight brothers and sisters grew up together in the Hudson valley to the time when school and college had to be thought of. Rev. George Fisher at first built up a Parish School, for the children of his parishioners and neighbo1's. Then he sent his two older sons to Williston Semi- nary, in Easthampton, Mass., where the oldest graduated in 1888. He entered Amherst College in the Class of 1892, was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated with a record of interest in mathematics and science. For most of the time for eleven years he was principal of the High School in Medway, Mass., where he graduated eight classesg though he also served a year as assistant in the Biological Laboratory of Amherst College, and studied another year in Cornell University. In IQO3 he buried the lady whom he had long courted and for a short time called his wife. An assistantship being open in the Physics Department of Co1'nell University, he was glad to go there, to teach and study for an advanced degree. For his thesis he studied the subject of the temperature coefficients of gas viscosity, and showed by a -series of experiments that the law known as Sutherland's expresses correctly the relation between vis- cosity and temperature through a range of temperature two hundred degrees higher than had been studied accurately before. In 1908 he received the degree of Ph.D., and the same summer sailed for Europe, where he spent two semesters in the German University of Gottingen, with some travel and sight-seeing in Germany and Switzerland. After three more years he was called to his present position of Professor of Physicsin New Hampshire College, where his kindly nature, his ability and his energetic interest in all college activities have endeared him to the entire stu- dent body. He has been made a member of Sigma Xi and of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the A.A.A.S. 8

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