Balfour Stewart

Balfour Stewart ( born November 1, 1828 in Edinburgh, † December 19, 1887 in Drogheda, Ireland) was a Scottish physicist.

Career

After studying at the University of Edinburgh and St. Andrews, he worked for a time in Australia for his father, a tea merchant. After he returned to Scotland, he went back to the physics and in 1856 assistant to James David Forbes, 1859 finally director of the Kew Observatory. Stewart conducted research in the field of meteorology and the geomagnetic field.

In 1868 he was awarded the Rumford Medal for his work to the Royal Society, in which he was six years previously recorded. Among his most important publications include Observations with a Rigid Spectroscope, Heating of a disc by RapidMotion in vacuo, Thermal Equilibrium in to Enclosure Containing Visible Matter in Motion and Internal Radiation in Uniaxal Crystals.

In 1870 he was appointed professor of physics to the Owens College, Manchester. A post he held until his death.

From 1885 to 1887 Stewart was the second president of the Society for Psychical Research.

Balfour Stewart died on December 19, 1887 at his country house in Ireland.

• Physicist (19th Century )
• Briton
• Scotsman
• Person ( Edinburgh)
• Born in 1828
• Died in 1887
• Man