Hugh Longbourne Callendar | |
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| Born | 18 April 1863 Hatherop, England |
| Died | 21 January 1930 (aged 66) Ealing, England |
| Spouse | Victoria Mary Stewart |
| Children | 4, including Guy Stewart Callendar |
| Awards | Duddell Medal and Prize Rumford Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Thermodynamics Temperature measurement Climatology X-ray imaging |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge Royal Holloway College |
Hugh Longbourne Callendar FRS (18 April 1863 – 21 January 1930) was a British physicist known for his contributions to the areas of thermometry and thermodynamics.[1]
Callendar was the first to design and build an accurate platinum resistance thermometer suitable for use, which allowed scientists and engineers to obtain consistent and accurate results.[1] He conducted experiments and researched thermodynamics, producing and publishing reliable tables on the thermodynamic properties of steam used for calculations.[2] Callendar worked with multiple institutions during World War I, helping to research and develop useful tools for the Navy.[1]
Callendar received awards such as the James Watt Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1898) and the Rumford Medal (1906).[3] He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, and later a member of the Physical Society of London. Callendar was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics three times.[1]
He died at home in Ealing, after an operation in 1930.[4]
- ^ a b c d Reif-Acherman, Simón (1 August 2015). "Between Thermodynamics and Thermometry: The Life and Scientific Achievements of Hugh Longbourne Callendar". Physics in Perspective. 17 (3): 198–235. doi:10.1007/s00016-015-0166-8. ISSN 1422-6944. S2CID 118260218.
- ^ Wisniak, Jaime (2012). "Hugh Longbourne Callendar". Educación Química. 23 (3): 396–404. doi:10.1016/S0187-893X(17)30126-X.
- ^ "Callendar, Hugh Longbourne (1863–1930), physicist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32248. Retrieved 21 May 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Fleming, James Rodger (2007) The Callendar Effect: The Life and Work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898–1964), the Scientist Who Established the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change. American Meteorological Society. ISBN 978-1-935704-04-1