Frederick Thomas Trouton

Frederick Thomas Trouton
Born(1863-11-24)24 November 1863
Died21 September 1922(1922-09-21) (aged 58)
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
Known forTrouton's rule[2]
Trouton–Rankine experiment
Trouton–Noble experiment
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]

Frederick Thomas Trouton FRS[1] (/ˈtrtən/; 24 November 1863 – 21 September 1922) was an Irish physicist known for Trouton's rule and experiments to detect the Earth's motion through the luminiferous aether.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b Anon (1926). "Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased: Rudolph Messel, Frederick Thomas Trouton, John Venn, John Young Buchanan, Oliver Heaviside, Andrew Gray". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 110 (756): i–v. Bibcode:1926RSPSA.110D...1.. doi:10.1098/rspa.1926.0036.
  2. ^ Trouton, F. (1884). "IV.On molecular latent heat". Philosophical Magazine. Series 5. 18 (110): 54–57. doi:10.1080/14786448408627563.
  3. ^ Wisniak, J. (2001). "Frederick Thomas Trouton: The Man, the Rule, and the Ratio". The Chemical Educator. 6: 55–61. doi:10.1007/s00897000448a. S2CID 97272981.
  4. ^ Barr, E. S. (1963). "Anniversaries in 1963 of Interest to Physicists". American Journal of Physics. 31 (2): 75–88. Bibcode:1963AmJPh..31...75B. doi:10.1119/1.1969329.- See especially pages 85–86.

© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search