Edward Andrade

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (December 27, 1887 - June 6, 1971), was an English physicist, writer and poet.

Background

Andrade was a Sephardi Jew and descendant of the British banker Moses da Costa, through whom he is related to the comedian and radio personality, Sam Costa.

He studied for a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg and then had a brief but productive spell of research with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester in 1914. They worked to show the wave nature of gamma rays, and on X-ray spectra. He then joined the Royal Artillery.

Career

He was Quain Professor of Physics at the University of London from 1928 to 1950, and then Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution for three years.

Andrade was also was a broadcaster, on BBC radio's Brains Trust.

• An Approach to Modern Physics (1956)
• Sir Isaac Newton (1954)
• Physics for the Modern World (1962)
• Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom (1964)

He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air."

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