Director Emeritus, 1945–1963 Honorary doctorates by the following institutions: Michigan State College in Science (1932) South Dakota School of Mines, Engineering (1935) University of Michigan, Law (1936) George Washington University, Science (1937) Georgetown University, Science (1939) Columbia University, Science (1939) Briggs received the following honors: American Philosophical Society, Magellanic Premium (1922) National Academy of Sciences, Elected Member (1942) Medal of Merit by President Harry S. Truman (1948) Franklin R. Burr Award, National Geographic Society (1954, 1962) Served as president of: American Physical Society Washington Academy of Sciences Philosophical Society of Washington Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Federal Club, Washington, D.C. Publications Lyman J. Briggs with: J. W. McLane, The moisture equivalents of soils USDA Bur. Soils Bull. 45. (1907) J. W. McLane, Moisture equivalent determinations and their application, Proc. Am. Soc. Agron. 2:138–47. (1910) H. L. Shantz, A wax seal method for determining the lower limit of available soil moisture, Bot. Gaz. 51:210–19. (1911) H. L. Shantz, The wilting coefficient for different plants and its indirect determination, Bot. Gaz. 53:20–37 (1912) P. R. Heyl. The earth inductor compass. Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 61:15–32. (1922) G. F. Hull and H. L. Dryden. Aerodynamics of airfoils at high speeds. Natl. Adv. Comm. Aeron. Rep. 207. (1925) Lyman J. Briggs: Summary of the results of the stratosphere flight of the Explorer II. Natl. Geogr. Soc. Technol. Pap. Stratosphere Series. 2:5–12. (1936) NBS War Research: The National Bureau of Standards in World War II. NIST archives (1949) Methods for measuring the coefficient of restitution and the spin of a ball. J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. 34:1–23. (1945) Lyman J. Briggs, Effect of spin and speed on the lateral deflection (curve) of a baseball and the Magnus effect for smooth spheres. Am. J. Phys. 27:589–96. (1959) Lyman J. Briggs, Limiting negative pressure of water, J. Appl. Phys. 21:721–22. (1950) The limiting negative pressure of mercury in Pyrex glass. J. Appl. Phys. 24:488–90. (1953) References Peter Briggs Myers and Johanna M.H. Levelt Sengers, Lyman James Briggs, Biographical Memoirs V.77, National Academy of Sciences (1999), R. C. Cochrane, Measures for Progress, a History of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966, 1974 Richard Rhodes, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", New York, Simon & Schuster, 1986. External links Lyman Briggs College of Science at Michigan State Lyman James Briggs, namesake of Lyman Briggs College of Science The Lyman Briggs Sundial The Earth Inductor