Professor Arthur Stewart Eve - St James' Church, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, UK
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N 52° 00.502 W 000° 25.469
30U E 676763 N 5765100
A famous Professor's grave in the churchyard of Silsoe.
Waymark Code: WM84HX
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/26/2010
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Wikipedia describes this person:
'Arthur Stewart Eve, CBE, FRS, FRSC (November 22, 1862 – March 24, 1948) was a English physicist who worked in Canada.
Born in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, the son of John Richard and Frederica (Somers) Eve, Eve was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and University of Canterbury. He was an assistant master (1896-1902) and bursar (1897-1902) at Marlborough College. In 1903, he came to Canada and was appointed a lecturer at McGill University. He was made an assistant professor in 1904, Associate Professor in 1905 and was appointed the Macdonald Professor in 1912. He later was the Director of Physics.
A colleague of Ernest Rutherford, he wrote a work about him Rutherford: being the life and letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O.M. in 1939.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1910 and of the Royal Society in 1917. He was president of the Royal Society of Canada from 1929 to 1930.
He died in Puttenham, Surrey in 1948.'
Description:
'ARTHUR STEWART EVE, who died on March 24 at his home at Puttenham in Surrey, was one of Rutherford's collaborators in early days at McGill. Throughout his life he had a fervent admiration for Rutherford, and his authoritative biography of Rutherford was a work of love. The main facts of Eve's life are simple.'
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v161/n4100/abs/161838a0.html
Date of birth: 11/22/1862
Date of death: 03/24/1948
Area of notoriety: Science/Technology
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
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Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Not listed
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