Silvanus P. Thompson
British academic physicist (1851-1916) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 64
Silvanus Phillips Thompson was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author.
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Silvanus Thompson, at about the age of 25.[7]![Silvanus Thompson presenting the 1910 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Silvanus_Thompson_lecturing.jpg/500px-Silvanus_Thompson_lecturing.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Silvanus Thompson presenting the 1910 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture[8]
Plaque for Thompson, sponsored by the Institute of Physics, on the front of the main building at Bootham School, York.
Polyphase electric currents and alternate-current motors, 1901Awards
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Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910 text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print. Thompson also wrote a popular physics text, Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, as well as biographies of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday.
