Daniel Frost Comstock
Daniel Frost Comstock ( born August 14, 1883 in Newport (Rhode Iceland ); † March 2, 1970 in Concord ( Massachusetts)) was an American physicist and engineer.
He received his Bachelor of Science at MIT ( 1904). He then studied at the University of Berlin (1905 ), University of Zurich (1906 ), University of Basel (1906, where he received his doctorate ). At the University of Cambridge (1906-1907), he studied under Joseph John Thomson. From 1904 on, he was part of the faculty of MIT in theoretical physics.
Especially famous Comstock is a co-founder of the company Kalmus, Comstock & Westcott, who later became known as Technicolor and developed the first commercially successful color film process.
Comstock also wrote some theoretical works in the field of relativity theory, the emission theory and electrodynamics,