Gordon Ferrie Hull (October 7, 1870 in Garnet, Ontario, Canada – October 7, 1956) was a Canadian-American mathematician, teacher and physicist, especially known for the experimental detection of the radiation pressure exerted by light which he achieved in 1903.
[1][2][3][4] Hull began his career in 1890-1891 as a teacher of mathematics and science at Hamilton Collegiate Institute, Ontario.
As well as his academic career he was conscripted into the army in both World War I (1918–1919) and World War II (1941–1944) as major, in the United States Army Ordnance Department.
He is especially famous for his 1903 experiment conducted with Ernest Fox Nichols in which they were the first to demonstrate the radiation pressure exerted by a beam of light.
Much of this apparatus is now in the Smithsonian, thanks to the generosity of Gordon F. Hull, Jr.