Frederick Guthrie

Frederick Guthrie (* October 15, 1833 in London, † October 21, 1886 ) was an English physicist and chemist. He was the brother of the mathematician and botanist Francis Guthrie.

Guthrie was educated at University College London and in Heidelberg and Marburg. Between 1858 and 1860 he worked as assistant to Professor Playfair in Edinburgh and in 1860 took over a professorship at the Royal College of Mauritius, where he worked until 1866.

1867 Guthrie went back to London and published his studies on the thermal conductivity of liquids and the description of a new voltmeter. In 1869 he was hired as a lecturer in experimental physics at the Royal Mining School in London. In this position he remained after the royal mining school was built in 1872 merged with the newly founded School of Science in South Kensington. There he organized a physical laboratory, which had since served as a model for similar facilities. As 1881, the Normal School of Science was founded, Guthrie received a professorship at the new facility.

Guthrie was one of the founders of the Physical Society (now the Institute of Physics ) in London in 1874 and in 1871 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Under the pseudonym of Frederic Cerny he also published a larger poem " The ten " and a drama " Logrono " (1877 ).

Frederick Guthrie died on October 21, 1886 in London.

Publications

• An examination of the waters of Mauritius
• Letters on the sugar -cane and cane -sugar
• The elements of heat and non- metallic chemistry. (1868 )
• Magnetism and electricity. (1875 )
• Practical physics. (1877 )
• The first book of knowledge. (1881 )