Arthur Stewart Eve

Arthur Stewart Eve , CBE , FRS , FRSC ( November 22, 1862 in Silsoe , Bedfordshire - March 24, 1948 Puttenham , Surrey ) was an English physicist who worked in Canada .

Eve was born to John Richard Eve and Frederica Eve (née Somers). He attended Pembroke College in Cambridge . He was assistant master from 1896 to 1902 and treasurer from 1897 to 1902 at Marlborough College . In 1903 he went to Canada, where he was appointed lecturer at McGill University . The following year he was appointed Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1905, and finally Macdonald Professor in 1912. He was later the Director of Physics.

In 1939 he wrote a biography of his colleague Ernest Rutherford , Rutherford: being the life and letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, OM

Eve became Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 . In 1910 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1917 the Royal Society . From 1929 to 1930 he was President of the Royal Society of Canada.

On April 23, 1905, Eve married Elizabeth Agnes Brooks. He had a son and two daughters.

Web links

Works by Eve, AS (Arthur Stewart) 1862–1948 in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b J. S. Foster: Arthur Stewart Eve. 1862-1948 . In: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . tape 6 , no. November 18 , 1949, pp. 397-407 , doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1949.0005 , JSTOR : 768932 .

↑ Eve, Arthur Stewart . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 2 : Chalmers – Fytche . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1944, pp. 440 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

↑ ^a ^b ^c Arthur Stewart Eve . In: The Quebec History Encyclopedia .

personal data
SURNAME	Eve, Arthur Stewart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Silsoe , Bedfordshire
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1948
Place of death	Puttenham

[frs-1] J. S. Foster: Arthur Stewart Eve. 1862-1948 . In: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society . tape 6 , no. November 18 , 1949, pp. 397-407 , doi : 10.1098 / rsbm.1949.0005 , JSTOR : 768932 .

[2] Eve, Arthur Stewart . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 2 : Chalmers – Fytche . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1944, pp. 440 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[QC-3] Arthur Stewart Eve . In: The Quebec History Encyclopedia .