scholarly journals VIII.—The Electrical Resistance of Nickel at High Temperatures

1887 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Cargill G. Knott
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Expansion ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Electrical Resistance ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Thermal Capacity ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Electric Conductor ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

In the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for 1874–75 there is a short paper on the “Electrical Resistance of Iron at a High Temperature.” It is the record of certain experiments made by three of us, then students in the Physical Laboratory of the University of Edinburgh; and its conclusion is that there is a peculiarity in the behaviour of iron as an electric conductor at the temperature of a dull red heat. At this temperature other physical peculiarities are known to exist, particularly as regards its thermal expansion, its thermal capacity, and its specific heat for electricity. The discovery of these striking properties we owe respectively to Dr Gore, Professor Barrett, and Professor Tait.

Otto Meyerhof, 1884 - 1951

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-200 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
School Life ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Long Period ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Otto Meyerhof was born on 12 April 1884 in Berlin and died in Philadelphia on 6 October 1951 at the age of 67; he was the son of Felix Meyerhof, who was born in 1849 at Hildesheim, and Bettina Meyerhof, nee May, born in 1862 in Hamburg; both his father and grandfather had been in business. An elder sister and two younger brothers died long before him. In 1923 he shared the Nobel prize for Physiology (for 1922) with A. V. Hill. He received an Hon. D.C.L. in 1926 from the University of Edinburgh, was a Foreign Member (1937) of the Royal Society of London, an Hon. Member of the Harvey Society and of Sigma XI. In 1944 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Otto Meyerhof went through his school life up to the age of 14 without delay, but there is no record that he was then brilliant. When he was 16 he developed some kidney trouble, which caused a long period of rest in bed. This period of seclusion seems to have been responsible for a great mental and artistic development. Reading constantly he matured perceptibly, and in the autumn of 1900 was sent to Egypt on the doctor’s advice for recuperation.

scholarly journals Arthur Mannering Tyndall, 1881-1961

1962 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 159-165 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
University College ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Outstanding Teacher

Arthur Mannering Tyndall was a man who played a leading part in the establishment of research and teaching in physics in one of the newer universities of this country. His whole career was spent in the University of Bristol, where he was Lecturer, Professor and for a while Acting ViceChancellor, and his part in guiding the development of Bristol from a small university college to a great university was clear to all who knew him. He presided over the building and development of the H. H. Wills Physical Laboratory, and his leadership brought it from its small beginnings to its subsequent achievements. His own work, for which he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, was on the mobility of gaseous ions. Arthur Tyndall was born in Bristol on 18 September 1881. He was educated at a private school in Bristol where no science was taught, except a smattering of chemistry in the last two terms. Nonetheless he entered University College, obtaining the only scholarship offered annually by the City of Bristol for study in that college and intending to make his career in chemistry. However, when brought into contact with Professor Arthur Chattock, an outstanding teacher on the subject, he decided to switch to physics; he always expressed the warmest gratitude for the inspiration that he had received from him. He graduated with second class honours in the external London examination in 1903. In that year he was appointed Assistant Lecturer, was promoted to Lecturer in 1907, and became Lecturer in the University when the University College became a university in 1909. During this time he served under Professor A. P. Chattock, but Chattock retired in 1910 at the age of 50 and Tyndall became acting head of the department. Then, with the outbreak of war, he left the University to run an army radiological department in Hampshire.

scholarly journals The consumption of carbon in the electric arc. No. III.—The anode loss

1916 ◽  
Vol 92 (638) ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Electric Arc ◽  
College Reading ◽  
Previous Communication ◽  
Loss Of Weight ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
University College ◽  
Rate Of Consumption

1. In a previous communication to the Royal Society experiments conducted in the Physical Laboratory of University College, Reading, have been described, from which it appears that the rate of consumption of carbon from the cathode of a very short are is such that the departure of one atom is accompanied by the transference between the poles of four electronic charges. The loss of weight of the anode is larger than this, on account of subsidiary combustion or evaporation occasioned by the high temperature of the crater. An experiment bas been described in the paper referred to which demonstrates the supreme importance of a hot cathode; the are could be maintained with a hot cathode alone, but not with a hot anode alone. It was suspected in consequence of this that the anode consumption of carbon was unimportant, and the experiment was repeated in the following manner for the purpose of testing this.

scholarly journals John Edward Lennard-Jones, 1894-1954

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 174-184 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Atoms And Molecules ◽  
Lennard Jones ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

John Lennard-Jones was born on 27 October 1894 in Leigh, Lancashire and was educated at Leigh Grammar School, where he specialized in classics. In 1912 he entered Manchester University, changed his subject to mathematics in which he took an honours degree and then an M.Sc. under Professor Lamb, carrying out some research on the theory of sound. In 1915 he joined the Royal Flying Corps, obtained his Wings in 1917 and saw service in France; he also took part in some investigations on aerodynamics with Messrs Boulton and Paul and at the National Physical Laboratory. In 1919 he returned to the University of Manchester as lecturer in mathematics, took the degree of D.Sc. of that university and continued to work on vibrations in gases, becoming more and more interested in the gas-kinetic aspects of the subject as his paper of 1922 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society shows. In 1922, on the advice of Professor Sydney Chapman, he applied for and was elected to a Senior 1851 Exhibition to enable him to work in Cambridge, where he became a research student at Trinity College and was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1924. At Cambridge under the influence of R. H. Fowler he became more and more interested in the forces between atoms and molecules and in the possibility of deducing them from the behaviour of gases.

XXVIII.—Atmospheric Electric Potential Results at Edinburgh during 1912

1914 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 317-332
Author(s):  
G. A. Carse ◽  
G. Shearer
Keyword(s):  
Electric Potential ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

§ 1. In this paper are given the results of calculations made from continuous records of atmospheric electric potential obtained during the year 1912 at the Physical Laboratory of the University of Edinburgh.During the summer of 1909 intermittent observations of the atmospheric electric potential and earth-air current were made at various points in Edinburgh, the results of which have already been communicated to this Society, and since October 1911 there has been an electrograph in operation at the laboratory.

scholarly journals Welcoming Remarks

1986 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
D. M. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

Welcome to Edinburgh and this second symposium on the plant life of SW Asia, supported by the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Botanic Garden and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It is fifteen years since the first symposium was held as part of the Garden's tercentenary and now at this occasion you have an opportunity to consider progress, to renew old friendships and to make new ones. That should be easy, for the list of participants shows a wonderful representation from all the countries of SW Asia and also of the institutes in Europe and America involved in SW Asian studies. Unfortunately, not all of our friends are here for since we last met we have lost quite a few: we particularly miss Professor Michael Zohary and Professor Per Wendelbo, who died alas, a relatively young man, far too soon.

5. On Quaternion Integration

1882 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
Tait
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

The Chairman closed the session with the following remarks:—I have now, in a very few words, to close this session, and in so doing I beg to remind you that it is the ninety-ninth session of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This Society, which was originally an offshoot of the University of Edinburgh, was first started, on the suggestion of Principal Robertson, towards the close of 1782. So that in the latter part of next year you will be able to announce your hundredth birthday. The Society came into existence just one year after its late distinguished President, Sir David Brewster, who was born in December 1781. While individuals pass away, age brings no decrepitude, but rather the reverse, to universities and scientific bodies.

scholarly journals VI. An account of a book intituled, a treastise of fluxions, in two books, by Colin McLaurin, A. M. Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Royal Society, 4 to in two volumes, pages 763

1743 ◽  
Vol 42 (468) ◽  
pp. 325-363
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

The Author’s first Design, in composing this Treatise, was to establish the Method of Fluxions on Principles equally evident and unexceptionable with those of the antient Geometricians, by Demonstrations deduced after their Manner, in the most rigid Form, and by illustrating the more abstruse Parts of the Doctrine, to vindicate it from the Imputation of Uncertainty or Obscurity.

scholarly journals William Wright Smith, 1875-1956

1957 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 192-202
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Living Things ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Regius Professor

Sir William Wright Smith, the eminent botanist, who was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1944 to 1949, died on 15 December 1956, in his eighty-second year. For thirty-four years he held the dual appointment of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; he was also Queen’s Botanist in Scotland. Born at Parkend near Lochmaben on 2 February 1875, the son of a Dumfries-shire farmer, he early acquired the interest in living things and a love for the country, which (though he was to spend the greater part of his life in Edinburgh) remained predominantly with him all his days. His school was the Dumfries Academy where he went till the age of sixteen, when he left for Edinburgh as first University Bursar. Every day he had to travel to school by train, yet he found time to explore his native countryside, and his regard for natural history was by no means confined to plants. For example, he enjoyed watching birds and fishing, or, with one or two companions, guddling for trout or, again, in a leisure hour lying on some sunny bank by a convenient rabbit warren with book and gun. Though not robust he played conventional games, and he was fond of cycling, sometimes covering long distances, once at least more than a hundred miles in one day.

V. Part of a letter from Mr. Macky, Professor of History, to Mr. MacLaurin, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, and by him communicated to the President of the Royal Society; being an extract from the books of the Town-Council of Edinburgh, relating to a disease there, supposed to be venereal, in the Year 1497

1743 ◽  
Vol 42 (469) ◽  
pp. 420-421
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Town Council ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Town

If the Veneral Disease was never known in Europe till the Siege of Naples 1495, it must have made a very quick Progress through Europe in a short time; for in 1497, I find it raging in Edinburgh , and our King and his Council terribly alarmed at this contagious Distemper, as appears from a Proclamation of King James the IVth, in the Records of the Town-Council of Edinburgh .

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