Richard Glazebrook

Richard Glazebrook

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birth_date = 18 September, 1854
birth_place = Liverpool
death_date = December 16, 1935
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field = physics
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Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB, KCVO FRS (1854–December 16, 1935) was a physicist born in Liverpool. He was educated at Dulwich College and Trinity College, Cambridge. [Peter Liddle, (1985), "Home Fires and Foreign Fields: British Social and Military Experience in the First World War", page 98, (Brassey's Defence Publishers)]

He was President of the Physical Society from 1903 to 1905. His work dealt primarily with aviation study but other branches of physics also interested him. He was the first president of the Institute of Physics after the Physical Society adopted this new name.

He was the first director of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington from 1899 to 1919; under his directorship it grew from a few huts on a marshy plain to a national service. For his work there he was knighted in 1917. He was also made a Companion of the Bath in 1910, Knight Commander of the Bath in 1920 and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1934.

He married Frances Gertrude Atkinson of Leeds in 1883; they had a son and three daughters. He died at Limpsfield, Surrey.

Works

* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/notice?N=FRBNF32172207 A dictionary of applied physics (5 vols.)] edited by Richard Glazebrook I. Mechanics, engineering, heat; II. Electricity; III. Meteorology, metrology; IV. Light, sound, radiology, aeronautics, metallurgy. General Index (London : Macmillan, 1922-1923)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/mechanicsdynamic030494mbp Mechanics Dynamics] (Cambridge University Press, 1911)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/mechanicshydrost033294mbp Mechanics Hydrostatics] (Cambridge University Press, 1916)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/physicaloptics00glaziala Physical optics] (London, New York: Longmans, Green, 1886)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/lawspropertiesof00glazrich Laws and properties of matter] (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1893)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/heatelementaryte00glazrich Heat: an elementary text-book, theoretical and practical, for colleges and schools] (Cambridge University Press, 1894)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/lightelementaryt00glazuoft Light, an elementary text-book, theoretical and practical] (Cambridge University Press, 1912)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/electricitymagne00glazrich Electricity and magnetism. An elementary text-book, theoretical and practical] (Cambridge University Press, 1903)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/practicalphysics00glazuoft Practical physics] (London, Longmans, 1889)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/jamesclerkmaxwel00glazrich James Clerk Maxwell and modern physics] (New York: Macmillan, 1896)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/scienceandindust032523mbp Science And Industry The Rede Lecture 1917] (Cambridge University Press)

External links

* [http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/piclib/imagerecord.asp?id=10301751 Science and Society Picture Library ] at www.nmsi.ac.uk

References


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