Photo from 1934 Dickinson College Microcosm
Wellington Amos Parlin
Wellington Amos Parlin was born in Des Moines, Iowa
on January 19, 1899. He graduated from Simpson College in 1921 with a Bachelor
of Arts degree and continued on at the University of Iowa to earn his Master
of Sciences. in 1922. He taught at Emory University as an Instructor in
Physics between 1923-1926. Finally, he attended Johns Hopkins University
to earn his Ph. D., in 1929.
Parlin began his Dickinson career in 1930 as an
Associate Professor of Physics. The College promoted him to full Professor
of Physics in 1934. During his time here at Dickinson College, Parlin had
many inventions. In 1935, Parlin invented an intensitometer, a machine
to give a variable and known intensities of light without changing the
color values and a set of color filters, which were used to determine the
degree of color blindness1. He
also invented a ratiometer and a refractometer2.
In 1948, Parlin was chosen Chairman of the Physics
Department. Later, in 1955, Parlin retired with the status of Professor
Emeritus of Physics.
In addition to teaching, Parlin was a veteran of
both World War I and World War II. He also had four daughters. Parlin died
on September 8, 1996, at the age of ninety-seven.
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