John Adam Fleming
John Adam Fleming, was an American geophysicist interested in the magnetosphere and the atmospheric electricity.
Fleming worked first at the United [States Coast and Geodetic Survey] with his superior Louis Agricola Bauer, who founded the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie [Institution of Washington]. He steadily advanced in the hierarchy of the institute and became its director in 1935. In 1925, Fleming served as president of the Philosophical Society of Washington. Fleming was elected into the United States [National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences] in 1940.
He was one of the main organizers of the Washington Conferences on Theoretical Physics with George Gamow.