Edward Andrade

Edward Andrade
FRS
Born
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade

(1887-12-27)27 December 1887
London
Died6 June 1971(1971-06-06) (aged 83)
London
EducationSt. Dunstan's College, Catford
Alma materUniversity College London
Known forAndrade's creep law
Andrade equation
Gamma rays
AwardsHughes Medal (1958)
Wilkins Lecture (1949)[1]
Holweck Medal (1947)
Guthrie Lecture (1941)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1935)
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorProf Philipp Lenard

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS[2] (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet. He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air."[3] In the scientific world Andrade is best known for work (with Ernest Rutherford) that first determined the wavelength of a type of gamma radiation, proving it was far higher in energies than X-rays known at the time. Also, a rheological model suggested by him and bearing his name is still widely employed in continuum mechanics and its geophysical applications. In popular culture he was best known for his appearances on The Brains Trust.

  1. ^ Andrade, E. N. da C. (1950). "Wilkins Lecture - Robert Hooke". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B - Biological Sciences. 137 (887): 153–187. Bibcode:1950RSPSB.137..153A. doi:10.1098/rspb.1950.0029. PMID 15430319. S2CID 162828757.
  2. ^ Cottrell, A. (1972). "Edward Neville da Costa Andrade. 1887-1971". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 18: 1–20. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1972.0001.
  3. ^ However, the current Andrades pronounce it ‘and-raid'. But, that's an Anglicism from the original Portuguese pronunciation. "Andrade" rhymes with "Comrade" in the original Portuguese. See Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.