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THE death is announced, at the age of fifty-eight, of PROF. SAMUEL SHELDON, professor of physics and electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn since 1889. Prof. Sheldon was at one time assistant to Kohlrausch, with whom he was associated in the former's determination of the ohm. In 1906 he was elected president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 187 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106187a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106187a0