Edward Andrade

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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (December 27, 1887 - June 6, 1971), was an English physicist, writer and poet.

[edit] Background

Andrade is a Sephardi Jew and descendant of the British banker and, Moses da Costa, through whom he is related to the comedian and radio personality, Sam Costa.

He 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 worked to show the wave nature of gamma rays, and on X-ray spectra. He then joined the Royal Artillery.

[edit] Career

He was Quain Professor of Physics at the University of London from 1928 to 1950, and then Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution for three years.^[1]

Andrade was also was a broadcaster, on BBC radio's Brains Trust.

• An Approach to Modern Physics (1956)
• Sir Isaac Newton (1954)
• Physics for the Modern World (1962)
• Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom (1964)

He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air." ^[2]

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