Physical Society of London
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The Physical Society of London, England
, existed from 1874 to 1921. It was a scientific society and produced the Proceedings of the Physical Society of London. In 1921 the society became the Physical Society and in 1960 it merged with the Institute of Physics
(IOP).
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, existed from 1874 to 1921. It was a scientific society and produced the Proceedings of the Physical Society of London. In 1921 the society became the Physical Society and in 1960 it merged with the Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
(IOP).
Presidents of the Physical Society
- 1874-1876 John H GladstoneJohn Hall GladstoneJohn Hall Gladstone FRS was a British chemist. He served as President of the Physical Society between 1874 and 1876 and during 1877–1879 was President of the Chemical Society...
- 1876-1878 George C Foster
- 1878-1880 William G AdamsWilliam Grylls AdamsWilliam Grylls Adams FRS was professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College, London.William Grylls Adams was a younger brother of John Couch Adams . He graduated from St...
- 1880-1882 The Lord Kelvin of LargsWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron KelvinWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging...
- 1882-1884 Robert B Clifton
- 1884-1886 Frederick GuthrieFrederick GuthrieFrederick Guthrie was a British scientific writer and professor. He helped found the Physical Society of London in 1874 and was president of the society from 1884-1886. He believed that science should be based on experimentation rather than discussion...
- 1886-1888 Balfour StewartBalfour StewartBalfour Stewart was a Scottish physicist. His studies in the field of radiant heat led to him receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1868. In 1859 he was appointed director of Kew Observatory...
- 1888-1890 Arnold W Reinold
- 1890-1892 William E AyrtonWilliam Edward Ayrton-See also:*Henry Dyer*John Milne*Anglo-Japanese relations...
- 1892-1893 George F Fitzgerald
- 1893-1895 Arthur W RuckerArthur William RuckerSir Arthur William Rucker , KB, FRS was a British physicist. He gained his BA at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1871, and was a Fellow there from 1871 to 1876...
- 1895-1897 William de W AbneyWilliam de Wiveleslie AbneyWilliam de Wiveleslie Abney FRS was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer.-Biography:Abney was born in Derby, England, the son of Edward Abney vicar of St Alkmund's Derby, and owner of the Firs Estate...
- 1897-1899 Shelford BidwellShelford BidwellShelford Bidwell was an English physicist and inventor. He is best known for his work with "telephotography", a precursor to the modern fax machine.-Private Life:...
- 1899-1901 Oliver J Lodge
- 1901-1903 Silvanus P Thompson
- 1903-1905 Richard T GlazebrookRichard GlazebrookSir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS was an English physicist.-Education and early career:Glazebrook was born in West Derby, Liverpool, the son of a surgeon...
- 1905-1906 John H PoyntingJohn Henry PoyntingJohn Henry Poynting was an English physicist. He was a professor of physics at Mason Science College from 1880 until his death....
- 1906-1908 John PerryJohn Perry (engineer)John Perry was a pioneering engineer and mathematician from Ireland. He was born on February 14, 1850 at Garvagh, County Londonderry, the second son of Samuel Perry and a Scottish-born wife....
- 1908-1910 Charles ChreeCharles ChreeCharles Chree was a British physicist.He was born in Lintrathen, Forfarshire, Scotland and educated at the Grammar School, Old Aberdeen, the University of Aberdeen where he graduated MA in 1879 and the University of Cambridge...
- 1910-1912 Hugh Longbourne CallendarHugh Longbourne CallendarHugh Longbourne Callendar FRS was a British physicist. He was born at Hatherop as the eldest son of the Reverend Hugh Callendar, a local Anglican rector...
- 1912-1914 Arthur SchusterArthur SchusterSir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics...
- 1914-1916 Sir Joseph Thompson
- 1916-1918 Charles V Boys
- 1918-1920 Charles Herbert Lees
- 1920-1922 Sir William BraggWilliam Henry BraggSir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics...
- 1922-1924 Alexander Russell
- 1924-1926 Frank Edward SmithFrank Edward SmithSir Frank Edward Smith, GCB, GBE, FRS was a British physicist.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918. His candidacy citation read: "Principal Assistant in the National Physical Laboratory . Author of a number of papers dealing with electrical units which have appeared in the...
- 1926-1928 Owen W Richardson
- 1928-1930 William H EcclesWilliam EcclesWilliam Henry Eccles was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England. Following graduation from the Royal College of Science, London, in 1898, he became an assistant to Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian radio...
- 1930-1932 Sir Arthur Eddington
- 1932-1934 Alexander O Rankine
- 1934-1936 Lord Rayleigh
- 1936-1938 Thomas Smith
- 1938-1941 Sir Allan Ferguson
- 1941-1943 Sir Charles DarwinCharles Galton DarwinSir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS was an English physicist, the grandson of Charles Darwin. He served as director of the National Physical Laboratory during the Second World War.-Early life:...
- 1943-1945 Edward N de Costa AndradeEdward AndradeEdward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS was an English physicist, writer, and poet.-Background:Andrade was a Sephardi Jew and is a descendant Moses da Costa Andrade...
- 1945-1947 David BruntDavid BruntSir David Brunt KBE was a Welsh meteorologist.-Early life:He was born in Staylittle, Montgomeryshire, Wales, the youngest of the nine children of farmworker John Brunt. His father moved the family to the mining district on Monmouthshire to work as a coal miner. David attended the local Abertillery...
- 1947-1949 George Ingle Finch
- 1949-1950 Sydney Chapman
- 1950-1952 Leslie Fleetwood Bates
- 1952-1954 Richard Whiddington
- 1954-1956 Harrie S W MasseyHarrie MasseySir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey FRS was an influential Australian mathematical physicist. He worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.- Life and career :...
- 1956-1958 Neville F Mott
- 1958-1960 John A RatcliffeJ. A. RatcliffeJohn Ashworth Ratcliffe, FRS , "JAR or Jack", was an influential British radio physicist....