Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSSA MICE (11 December 1781 – 10 Februar 1868) wis a Scots pheesicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, historian o science an varsity principal. Brewster's great granddochter wis the ornithologist Evelyn Baxter.[2]
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Sir David Brewster |
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 David Brewster, c. 1850s |
| Born | 11 December 1781
Canongate, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire |
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| Dee'd | 10 Februar 1868(1868-02-10) (aged 86)
Allerly House, Gattonside, Roxburghshire |
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| Naitionality | Scots |
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| Citizenship | Great Breetain |
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| Alma mater | Edinburgh Varsity |
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| Kent for | Invention o the kaleidoscope[1]
Diffraction o licht
optics |
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| Awairds | Copley Medal (1815)
Rumford Medal (1818)
Keith Prize (1827–9, 1829–31)
Ryal Medal (1830) |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Pheesics, mathematics, astronomy |
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| Influences | Isaac Newton |
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| Influenced | James David Forbes |
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| Notes Foondin Director o the Scots Society o Airts (1821)
Principal o St Andrews Varsity (1837–59)
Principal o Edinburgh Varsity (1859–68) |
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