Arthur Schuster
Arthur Schuster · Science & Medicine
Physicist known for periodogram analysis and work on terrestrial magnetism and radiative transfer
1851, Frankfurt, Germany — 1934, Berkshire, England
Germany · England
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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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Physicist known for periodogram analysis and work on terrestrial magnetism and radiative transfer
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
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