Silvanus P. Thompson

Silvanus Phillips Thompson (født 19. juni 1851 i York i England, død 12. juni 1916) var en engelsk fysiker som arbeidet med stråling. Han publiserte sin forskning bare noen dager etter Henri Becquerel, som fikk æren for oppdagelsene.

Verker 
 Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, London 1881; 53. Auflage 1891; übersetzt ins Deutsche (von Himstedt, 2. Auflage, Tübingen 1897), Französische, Italienische, Polnische
 Dynamo-electric Machinery, London 1884; 7. Auflage 1904; übersetzt ins Deutsche (von Grawinkel; in 7. Auflage neu bearbeitet von Strecker und Vesper, Halle 1907) und ins Französische; dazu als 2. Band: Alternating-current Machinery, 1905
 The Electromagnet, London 1891; deutsch Halle 1894
 Polyphase Electric Currents and Alternate Current Motors, 1895; 2. Auflage 1900; deutsch Halle 1896; 2. Auflage, Halle 1901-04
 Latest Electrodynamic Machinery, 1897
 Michael Faraday, His Life and Work, 1898; deutsch, Halle 1900
 Calculus made easy, 1910

Referanser

Litteratur
 Bright, C. "Submarine Telegraphs", C. Lockwood, London, 1898.
 Obituary in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1917–1918, vol. 94, pp xvi–xix
 Obituary in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1917, vol. 77, pp 305–307 – Online at ADS
 Thompson, Jane Smeal and Thompson, Helen G., Silvanus Phillips Thompson: His Life and Letters (London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1920). Also available as the (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1920) printing. Additional different scannings of this book are available at the Internet Archive.
 Lynch, A. C., "Silvanus Thompson: teacher, researcher, historian," IEE Proceedings, 1989, vol. 136, A(6), pp 306–312.
 Gay, H. and Barrett, A., "Should the Cobbler Stick to his Last? Silvanus Phillips Thompson and the Making of a Scientific Career," British Journal for the History of Science, 2002, vol. 35, 151–86
 
 

Britiske fysikere
Personer fra York
Fødsler i 1851
Dødsfall i 1916