Edward Andrade

Edward Andrade, in London in 1934

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (born December 27, 1887 in London , † June 6, 1971 ) was a British physicist .

Live and act

Edward Neville Andrade was of Sephardic Jewish origin and a descendant of Moses da Costa Andrade (not of Moses Mendes da Costa , as is sometimes stated). He received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg and did a brief but very successful research from 1914 with Ernest Rutherford in Manchester . Both researchers worked on showing the wave nature of gamma rays with the help of X-ray spectra . A little later he joined the Royal Artillery .

From 1928 to 1950 he was Quain Professor of Physics at the University of London and later three years Fuller Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution . In addition, Andrade was a broadcaster on the BBC radio program Brains Trust .

Since 1935 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1950 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

An Approach to Modern Physics . Bell, London 1956.
Sir Isaac Newton . Collins, London 1954; Doubleday, New York 1964.
Physics for the Modern World . Barnes and Noble, 1962
Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom . Doubleday New York 1964.
A brief history of the Royal Society . Royal Society, London 1960.
An introduction to science . 4 volumes, Oxford, Blackwell, 1935 to 1947 (with Julian Huxley ).

personal data
SURNAME	Andrade, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Andrade, Edward Neville da Costa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1971