George Frederick Charles Searle

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George Frederick Charles Searle (born December 3, 1864 in Oakington , Cambridgeshire , † November 16, 1954 ) was a British physicist and lecturer .

In 1888 he began to work in the Cavendish Laboratory under Joseph John Thomson . He continued this activity for the next 55 years. He was a lecturer at Cambridge University from 1900 to 1935 , a position that included both teaching and experimental research. In 1905 he became a member of the Royal Society . In Cambridge he received his doctorate in 1912 to the Doctor of Science . Searle was married to Alice Mary Edwards. His rejection of animal experiments was also known.

His work (1896, 1897) on the electromagnetic mass and the speed dependence of the mass was important, whereby he recognized that bodies could not be accelerated beyond the speed of light, as this requires an infinite amount of energy. He also coined the term Heaviside ellipsoid, where he found out following Oliver Heaviside that electrostatic fields are contracted in the direction of movement . These developments were later partly found in the mathematics of special relativity .

literature

  • Searle, George Frederick Charles: Problems in electric convection . In: Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. tape 187 , 1896, pp. 675-718 .
  • Searle, George Frederick Charles: On the Steady Motion of an Electrified Ellipsoid . In: Philosophical Magazine . 44, No. 269, 1897, pp. 329-341.
  • Experimental elasticity . (1908). Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Experimental harmonic motion . (1922). 2nd edition. Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Experimental optics . 1st edition. (1925). Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Experimental optics . 2nd edition. (1935). Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Experimental physics . (1934). Cambridge Univ. Press.

swell

  • Thomson, George. (1954). “George Frederick Charles Searle. 1864-1954 ". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. v. 1, pp. 246-252.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ entry on Searle; George Frederick Charles (1864-1954) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
personal data
SURNAME Searle, George Frederick Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English physicist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakington , Cambridgeshire
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1954