Robert Bellamy Clifton
Robert Bellamy Clifton ( born March 13, 1836 in Gedney, Lincolnshire, † February 22, 1921 in Oxford ) was an English physicist.
Career
He studied at University College London and at St John 's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts (BA). From 1860 he was professor of natural philosophy at Owen 's College in Manchester and from 1865 professor of experimental philosophy at Oxford, where, until 1872, the Clarendon Laboratory was established. He constructed several optical apparatus. In 1915 he became Professor Emeritus.
Publications
- On the conical refraction of a straight line; 1850
- Note on Professor de Morgan's paper Entitled "On the early history of the signs [ plus ] and [ minus ] "; University Press, 1865