George Frederick Charles Searle
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George Frederick Charles Searle (December 3, 1864 in Oakington, Cambridgeshire - November 16, 1954) was a British physicist and teacher.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1888 he began work at the Cavendish Laboratory under J.J. Thomson, and ended up working with the lab for fifty-five years. He wrote a book on Oliver Heaviside. The book was completed in 1950. However, it remained unpublished for many years. It was finally published in 1987 by C.A.M. Publishing. He was married with Alice Mary Edwards.
He is known for his work on the velocity dependence of the electromagnetic mass. Following the work of Oliver Heaviside, he defined the expression Heaviside ellipsoid, which means that the electrostatic field is contracted in the line of motion. Those developments were important for the development of special relativity.
[edit] Bibliography
- Searle, George Frederick Charles (1897), "On the Steady Motion of an Electrified Ellipsoid", Philosophical Magazine, 5 44 (269): 329-341
Searle was the author of numerous papers and a number of books:
- Experimental elasticity. (1908). Cambridge Univ. Press.
- Experimental harmonic motion. (1922). 2nd edition. Cambridge Univ. Press.
- Experimental optics. 1st edition. (1925). Cambridge Univ. Press.
- Experimental optics. 2nd edition. (1935). Cambridge Univ. Press.
- Experimental physics. (1934). Cambridge Univ. Press.
- Oliver Heaviside, the man, (1987) C.A.M. Publishing, England. (Published many years after his death.)
[edit] References
- Thomson, George. (1954). "George Frederick Charles Searle. 1864-1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. v. 1, pp. 246-252.
