Daniel Frost Comstock
Daniel Frost Comstock (born August 14, 1883 in Newport (Rhode Island) , † March 2, 1970 in Concord (Massachusetts) ) was an American physicist and engineer.
Life
He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1904). He then also studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (1905), the University of Zurich (1906) and the University of Basel . He received his doctorate in Basel in 1906. At Cambridge University (1906-1907) he studied under Joseph John Thomson . From 1904 on he was a member of the MIT faculty for theoretical physics . In 1912 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Comstock is particularly well-known as the co-founder of Kalmus, Comstock & Westcott, which later became known as Technicolor and developed the first commercially successful color film process. Comstock also wrote some theoretical papers in the fields of relativity , emission theory and electrodynamics ,
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bachelor thesis: The effect of magnetism on dielectric capacity and its relation to the nature of the dielectric constant (1904)
- ↑ Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of the effect of permanent magnetism in iron on the permeability for very small forces .
- ^ Cattell and Brimhall, American Men of Science , Third Edition (1921), p. 140
- ^ Tom Huntington: From Black & White to Technicolor . In: American Heritage . tape 17 , no. 1 , 2001, p. 48 (English, from the original archived on 02-12-2008 ( memento of December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )). From Black & White to Technicolor ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Comstock, DF: The principle of relativity . In: Science . tape 31 , 1910, pp. 767-772 .
- ^ Comstock, DF: A Neglected Type of Relativity . In: Phys. Rev. Band 30 , 1910, pp. 267 .
- ↑ Comstock, DF & Troland, LT: The nature of matter and electricity: an outline of modern views . D. Van Nostrand, New York 1917.
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| SURNAME | Comstock, Daniel Frost |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newport (Rhode Island) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2nd 1970 |
| Place of death | Concord, Massachusetts |