Handwritten transcripts of correspondence with Lord John William Rayleigh concerning Buckingham's work on physically similar systems and hydro and aerodynamic methods, 1915-1916.
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Buckingham, Edgar, 1867-1940
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Buckingham graduated from Harvard in 1887. From the description of Notes in Physics A, 1889. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073639 Physicist (thermodynamics, fluid dynamics). On the faculty in physics and physical chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, 1893-1899; assistant physicist, Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1902-1906; and physicist with the Bureau of Standards, 1906-1940. From the description of Papers, 1891-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat...
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, baron, 1842-1919
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John William Strutt, the Third Baron Rayleigh, an English physicist, was born in Terling, Essex, in 1842. He attended Cambridge University and in 1879 became professor of experimental physics there and director of its Cavendish Laboratory until 1884. He later was on the faculty at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, became chancellor of Cambridge University, and was a founder of the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington, England. Strutt, who with Lord William Ramsey, discovered the first...
