Balfour Stewart
Balfour Stewart (born November 1, 1828 in Edinburgh , † December 19, 1887 in Drogheda , Ireland ) was a Scottish physicist .
Career
After studying at Edinburgh University and St Andrews , he worked for a while in Australia for his father, a tea merchant. After he returned to Scotland, he devoted himself again to physics and was assistant to James David Forbes in 1856 , and finally director of the Kew Observatory in 1859 . Stewart did research in the field of meteorology and the earth's magnetic field .
In 1868 he received the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society for his work , into which he was accepted six years earlier. His most important publications include Observations with a Rigid Spectroscope , Heating of a Disc by Rapid Motion in Vacuo , Thermal Equilibrium in an Enclosure Containing Matter in Visible Motion and Internal Radiation in Uniaxal Crystals .
In 1870 he was appointed the first Langworthy Professor of Physics at Owens College in Manchester. He kept this post until his death. In 1876 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1859 he was an honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
From 1885 to 1887, Stewart was the second president of the Society for Psychical Research .
Stewart Balfour died on December 19, 1887 at his country estate in Ireland.
Individual evidence
- ↑ timeline - About us, on the University of Manchester website; Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 12, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stewart, Balfour |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1887 |
| Place of death | Drogheda , Ireland |