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Edward Andrade

1887 - 1971

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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS ( 27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet. He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air." In the scientific world Andrade is best known for work (with Ernest Rutherford) that first determined the wavelength of a type of gamma radiation, proving it was far higher in energies than X-rays known at the time. Also, a rheological model suggested by him and bearing his name is still widely employed in continuum mechanics and its geophysical applications. In popular culture he was best known for his appearances on The Brains Trust. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Andrade is the 676th most popular physicist (up from 809th in 2019), the 3,983rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,781st in 2019) and the 77th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edward Andrade ranks 676 out of 851. Before him are Kazuhiko Nishijima, Stanley Mandelstam, Ali Javan, Orest Khvolson, Alvin M. Weinberg, and Norris Bradbury. After him are Francis Hauksbee, Lisa Randall, Ralph Kronig, Hertha Sponer, Gregory Breit, and Alfred Kleiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Edward Andrade ranks 224. Before him are Jamini Roy, Victor d'Arcy, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Govind Ballabh Pant, Fartein Valen, and Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow. After him are Charles Marion, Jacob L. Devers, L. S. Lowry, Jakob van Hoddis, René Maran, and Albert Paris Gütersloh. Among people deceased in 1971, Edward Andrade ranks 185. Before him are Bobby Jones, Tadas Ivanauskas, Emmett Toppino, Jean Vilar, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, and Armand Massard. After him are Nikola Kotkov, Emerich Vogl, Michael Rennie, Gerhard von Rad, Hjalmar Andersson, and Carl Blegen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Andrade ranks 3,984 out of 8,785. Before him are E. T. Whittaker (1873), William Hemsley (1843), Ivor Bueb (1923), Jim Marshall (1923), Richard Attwood (1940), and Tony Crook (1920). After him are Peter Hook (1956), Francis Hauksbee (1660), Ralph Cudworth (1617), Nicholas Evans (1950), Grantley Goulding (1874), and Henry Baker (1698).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Edward Andrade ranks 77. Before him are James David Forbes (1809), John Polkinghorne (1930), Bernard Lovell (1913), C. V. Boys (1855), Michael Green (1946), and Brandon Carter (1942). After him are Francis Hauksbee (1660), Raymond Gosling (1926), Peter Mark Roget (1779), John Hopkinson (1849), Balfour Stewart (1828), and John Pendry (1943).

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