Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 - 6 June 1971) was an English poet, physicist, and science writer.
Edward Andrade (1887-1971) in 1934. Photo by G.F. Hund. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimeida Commons.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Andrade was a Sephardic Jew, and is a descendant of Moses da Costa Andrade (not Moses da Costa as is sometimes stated). Moses da Costa Andrade is Edward Neville's 2nd great grandfather, and was a feather merchant in London's East End.
He told The Literary Digest that his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air." [1]
Edward Andrade studied for a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg and then had a brief but productive spell of research with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester in 1914. They carried out experiments to determine the wavelengths of gamma-rays of radium.[2][3]
He joined the Royal Artillery during the First World War, and then became Professor of Physics at the Ordnance College in Woolwich in 1920.
Career[]
He was Quain professor of physics at University College, London from 1928 to 1950, and then Fullerian professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution for 3 years,[4] until opposition to his attempts to reform the RI led to a vote of no confidence in him by members of the RI, following which he resigned.
Andrade was also was a broadcaster, on BBC radio's Brains Trust.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Poems and Songs. London: Macmillan, 1949.
Non-fiction[]
- The Structure of the Atom. London: George Bell, 1923; New York: Harcourt Brace, 1923.
- The Mechanism of Nature: Being a simple approach to modern views on the structure of matter and radiation. London: George Bell, 1930.
- Engines: Six lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. London: George Bell, 1932.
- Simple Science (with Julian Huxley). New York & London: Harper, 1935.
- More Simple Science (with Julian Huxley). New York & London: Harper, 1936.
- The Atom. London & New York: Nelson, 1936.
- The New Chemistry. London: George Bell, 1936.
- Viscosity and Plasticity: Being the substance of three post-graduate lectures to the Oil and Colour Chemists' Association. Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer, 1947.
- The Atom and its Energy. London: George Bell, 1947.
- Forces at Work (with Julian Huxley). Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1949.
- Sir Isaac Newton. London: M. Parrish, 1950; London: Collins, 1954.
- An Approach to Modern Physics. London: George Bell, 1956; Garden City, NY: Doublday, 1956.
- A Brief History of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society, 1960.
- Physics for the Modern World. London: G.G. Harrap, 1962; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1962.
- Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
Fonds[]
His papers are held by the University of Leicester[6]
Notes[]
- ↑ Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.
- ↑ Andrade, E.N. da C. "Personal Reminiscences." http://www.iucr.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/743/andrade.pdf
- ↑ Rutherford, Ernest. “The Natural and Artificial Disintegration of the Elements.” The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 19, No. 6 (Dec., 1924), pp. 561-578.
- ↑ Fullerian Professorships
- ↑ Search results = au:Edward Andrade, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Apr. 19, 2014.
- ↑ University of Leicester(MS 74)
External links[]
- Books
- Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade at Amazon.com
- About
- Edward Neville da Costa Andrade at Today in Masonic History
- E N da C Andrade: Some Personal Reminiscences (pdf)
- Oral History interview transcript with Edward Andrade 18 December 1962, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
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