Silvanus P. Thompson
British academic physicist (1851–1916) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS (19 June 1851 – 12 June 1916) was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author. Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910 text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print.[2] Thompson also wrote a popular physics text, Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism,[3] as well as biographies of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday.
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Born | Silvanus Philips Thompson 19 June 1851 York, England |
Died | 12 June 1916 (1916-06-13) (aged 64) London, England |
Education | University of London Royal School of Mines |
Known for | Calculus Made Easy (1910) |
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Fields | Physics Electrical engineering |
Institutions | University College, Bristol British Institute of Radiology |
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