James Forbes (physicist) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-02

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00:00:33 1 Life and work
00:07:37 2 Selected publications



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James David Forbes  (1809–1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at its University and a professor there from 1833 until he became principal of the United College of St Andrews in 1859.
He invented the seismometer in 1842.