Frederick Thomas Trouton | |
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| Born | 24 November 1863 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 21 September 1922 (aged 58) |
| Education | Royal School Dungannon |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin (MA, DSc) |
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| Spouse |
Anne Maria Fowler (m. 1887) |
| Children | 7 |
| Awards | FRS (1897)[1] Order of the British Empire (1918) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Academic advisors | George Francis FitzGerald |
| Notable students | Edward Andrade |
Frederick Thomas Trouton OBE FRS[1] (/ˈtraʊtən/; 24 November 1863 – 21 September 1922) was an Irish physicist known for Trouton's rule and experiments to detect the Earth's motion through the luminiferous aether.[3][4]
- ^ a b Anon (1926). "Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased: Rudolph Messel, Frederick Thomas Trouton, John Venn, John Young Buchanan, Oliver Heaviside, Andrew Gray". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 110 (756): i–v. Bibcode:1926RSPSA.110D...1.. doi:10.1098/rspa.1926.0036.
- ^ Trouton, F. (1884). "IV.On molecular latent heat". Philosophical Magazine. Series 5. 18 (110): 54–57. doi:10.1080/14786448408627563.
- ^ Wisniak, J. (2001). "Frederick Thomas Trouton: The Man, the Rule, and the Ratio". The Chemical Educator. 6: 55–61. doi:10.1007/s00897000448a. S2CID 97272981.
- ^ Barr, E. S. (1963). "Anniversaries in 1963 of Interest to Physicists". American Journal of Physics. 31 (2): 75–88. Bibcode:1963AmJPh..31...75B. doi:10.1119/1.1969329.- See especially pages 85–86.