Papers, 1877-1910.

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Papers, 1877-1910.

Correspondence, offprints, and scientific notes. The correspondence is largely with Lord Kelvin on Mascart's publications and personal life; offprints by Mascart (1894) and Kelvin (1900) on electricity; and scientific notes. Also biographical material on Mascart including a list of honors awarded to him. Mascart was the maternal grandfather of Léon Brillouin, and these papers a part of the Brillouin Collection.

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Mascart, Éleuthère Élie Nicolas, 1837-1908

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Physicist (electricity, magnetism, meteorology, and optics). Director, Bureau Central M'et'eorologique, France from 1871; and professor-regent, Collège de France from 1872. From the description of Papers, 1877-1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80451954 ...

Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969

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Physicist (theoretical physics, quantum theory, electromagnetic waves). On physics faculty at Collège de France, 1932-1939, and Harvard University, 1946-1949; general director, French National Broadcasting System, 1939-1940; director of research, Watson Laboratory, International Business Machines Corporation, 1949-1954. From the description of Papers, 1877-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80490114 Died in 1967. From the description of Oral history interview ...

Kelvin, William Thomson, baron, 1824-1907

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Physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79617799 From the description of Papers, 1905-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80830683 From the description of Correspondence, 1836-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84971911 British mathematician and physicist. From the description of Letters signed (2) and autograph postcard signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1890 Jan. 25...