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Joseph Sweetman Ames
NASA's Ames Research Center is named after Joseph Sweetman Ames, who was one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which was the predecessor for NASA. Ames was a Physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., and later became provost and university president. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Publications

• The Theory of Physics (1897)
• Elements of Physics (1900)
• The Induction of Electric Currents (two volumes, 1900)
• Text-Book of General Physics (1904)
• Theoretical Mechanics (1929)

Ames was also an assistant editor of Astro-Physical Journal and associate editor of the American Journal of Science; editor-in-chief of the Scientific Memoir Series; and editor of J. von Fraunhofer's memoirs on Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra (1898).

Learn more about the history of NASA Ames Research Center.