Charles Niven
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14 September 1845 - 11 May 1923
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Niven was a Scottish mathematician and physicist who spent most of his career at the University of Aberdeen. He published on mechanics, electricity, and heat. Life and work Charles Niven studied mathematics at Aberdeen and was awarded a BA in 1863, and then studied at Cambridge. Charles and his older brother William D. were tutored by Edward Routh for the Mathematical Tripos. Charles became senior wrangler in 1867.
Charles Niven's Published Works
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- I. On the conduction of heat in ellipsoids of revolution (36)
- On a method of finding the conductivity for heat (1905) (25)
- V. On the conduction of heat in ellipsoids of revolution (17)
- XXXIV. Electrical conductivity at low temperatures (1927) (8)
- LXIV. The resistance of cæsium, cobalt, and chromium at low temperatures (1928) (8)
- LXIII. Electrical conductivity of arsenic and antimony at low temperatures (1928) (7)
- III. On the induction of electric currents in infinite plates and spherical shells (3)
- LXV. The effect of cadmium as an impurity in lead on the conductivity of lead (1928) (3)
- THE PROBLEM OF THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF METALS (1931) (1)
- XXIII.—On the Stresses due to Compound Strains (1)
- IV. On the induction of electric currents in infinite plates and spherical shells (1)
- On the measurement of specific inductive capacity (1911) (1)
- MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN TRANSMISSION LINES (1932) (1)
- ON THE TESTING OF FIBRE-BOARD INSULATION (1932) (1)
- On a Method of finding the Parallax of Double Stars, and on the Displacement of the Lines in the Spectrum of a Planet (1874) (1)
- XXVII.On some methods of determining and comparing coefficients of self-induction and mutual induction (1887) (1)
- LXII. Crystal structure of calcium (1928) (1)
- 10. On the Stresses due to Compound Strains (0)
- XXXIII. On the theory of an imperfectly homogeneous elastic solid (1877) (0)
- LI. The Quantum Theory as a problem in lines of force (1929) (0)
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