Silvanus Phillips Thompson
Silvanus Phillips Thompson (born June 19, 1851 in York , England , † June 12, 1916 ) was an English physicist .
Life
Silvanus Philipps Thompson studied at the Flounders' Institute at Pontefract and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London in 1869 . His position of a Science Master , which he held in the Bootham School , which he had previously attended, from 1873-1874, he gave up to devote himself to further chemical and physical studies at the Royal School of Mines in London .
From 1876 Thompson was a lecturer and from 1878 professor of experimental physics at University College in Bristol , where he set up the physics laboratory. From 1885 he was director and professor of physics at Finsbury Technical College in Finsbury (London) and from 1891 Fellow of the Royal Society . He was also a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and Vice President of the Physical Society of London .
Thompson wrote a large number of papers in the field of experimental physics, especially electricity and optics , he improved in 1881 the Glan-Thompson prism developed by Paul Glan the year before .
Thompson's most famous publications include Calculus made easy from 1910, as well as the biographies of Lord Kelvin , Michael Faraday and Philipp Reis . Thompson was the first president of the Röntgen Society (later: British Institute of Radiology ).
Works
- Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism , London 1881; 53rd edition, 1891; translated into German (von Himstedt, 2nd edition, Tübingen 1897), French, Italian, Polish
- Dynamo-electric Machinery , London 1884; 7th edition 1904; translated into German (by Grawinkel; 7th edition revised by Strecker and Vesper, Halle 1907) and into French; as a second volume: Alternating-current Machinery , 1905
- The Electromagnet , London 1891; German hall 1894
- Polyphase Electric Currents and Alternate Current Motors , 1895; 2nd edition 1900; German Halle 1896; 2nd edition, hall 1901–1904
- Latest Electrodynamic Machinery , 1897
- Michael Faraday, His Life and Work , 1898; German, hall 1900
- Calculus made easy , 1910
literature
- JS Thompson, HG Thompson: Silvanus Thompson, His Life and Letters . Unwin, London, 1920.
- Claus Bernet : Silvanus Phillips Thompson. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 1420-1428.
- Kurt Jäger, Friedrich Heilbronner: Lexicon of electrical engineers . 2nd Edition. VDE-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8007-2903-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Silvanus Phillips Thompson in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Silvanus Philipps Thompson: On a new polarizing prism . In: Phil Mag . tape 5 , no. 12 , 1881, p. 349 .
- ^ Silvanus Philipps Thompson: On the Nicol Prism and its Modern Varieties . In: Proceedings of the Optical Convention . London 1905, p. 216 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thompson, Silvanus Phillips |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | York , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1916 |