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Science & Medicine

Arthur Schuster

Who

Arthur Schuster · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist known for periodogram analysis and work on terrestrial magnetism and radiative transfer

When

1851, Frankfurt, Germany — 1934, Berkshire, England

Where

Germany · England

Biography

Arthur Schuster is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist known for periodogram analysis and work on terrestrial magnetism and radiative transfer

How & why

Schuster was a physicist at Manchester who introduced the periodogram for detecting hidden periodicities, coined the term 'antimatter', and contributed to spectroscopy, terrestrial magnetism and the mathematics of radiative transfer. He was born into a Frankfurt Jewish family that later converted to Christianity, and settled in Britain.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science

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Physicist known for periodogram analysis and work on terrestrial magnetism and radiative transfer

1851

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science