Arthur Schuster

Sir Arthur Schuster
FRS FRSE
Born
Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster

(1851-09-12)12 September 1851
Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation
Died14 October 1934(1934-10-14) (aged 83)
Yeldall Manor, Berkshire, England
Alma materUniversity of Heidelberg
Awards
Scientific career
Academic advisorsWilhelm Eduard Weber

Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS FRSE[1] (12 September 1851 – 14 October 1934) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Schuster's integral is named after him.[2] He contributed to making the University of Manchester a centre for the study of physics.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b Simpson, G. C. (1935). "Sir Arthur Schuster 1851-1934". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1 (4): 408–423. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1935.0006. JSTOR 768973.
  2. ^ Bateman, H. (1946). "An Extension of Schuster's Integral". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 32 (3): 70–72. Bibcode:1946PNAS...32...70B. doi:10.1073/pnas.32.3.70. PMC 1078882. PMID 16578196.
  3. ^ Charlton, H. B. (1951) Portrait of a University. Manchester: University Press; chap. V: the Schuster-Tout epoch
  4. ^ "Arthur Schuster". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35975. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)