Thomas Eckersley
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| Born | Thomas Lydwell Eckersley 27 December 1886 |
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| Institutions | Marconi Company |
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| Notable awards | FRS (1938)[1] Faraday Medal, IET (1951)[2] |
Thomas Lydwell Eckersley FRS[1] (27 December 1886–15 February 1959) was an English theoretical physicist and engineer.[1][3]
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Education and early life
Eckersley was born in Gibraltar.[4] He was educated at Bedales School, University College, London, where he gained a degree in engineering, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a second degree in mathematics.
Career and research
In 1919 he joined the Marconi Company as a theoretical research engineer and stayed there for the remainder of his career. He devoted most of his career to research into radio waves reflected downwards from the Heaviside layer and how they interfered with direction finding equipment.
Awards and honours
Eckersley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1938[1]
Personal life
Eckersley's mother Rachel was the fifth child of Victorian biologist Thomas Henry Huxley renowned for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Eckersley's younger brother was the BBC engineer Peter Eckersley. In 1920, Eckersley married author Barry Pain's, daughter Eva Amelia.
References
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- ↑ Oxford, Marconi Archive, Bodleian Library, Ms. Marconi 995.
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- ↑ The B.B.C. and all that. Roger Eckersley. Sampson Low, London, 1946. Page 2.
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