Edward Andrade
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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English
England
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 physicist
Physicist
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, writer, and poet.

Background

Andrade was a Sephardi Jew
Sephardi Jews
Sephardi Jews is a general term referring to the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula before their expulsion in the Spanish Inquisition. It can also refer to those who use a Sephardic style of liturgy or would otherwise define themselves in terms of the Jewish customs and...

 and is a descendant Moses da Costa Andrade (not Moses da Costa
Moses da Costa
Moses Mendes da Costa , also called Anthony da Costa, was an 18th century English banker.He was so successful as a banker, that he has sometimes been said to have been on the board of the Bank of England; however, although he held shares in the bank, he was not in fact ever a director.In 1727, he...

 as is sometimes stated). Moses da Costa Andrade is Edward Neville's 2nd great grandfather, and was a feather merchant in London's East End.

Edward Neville studied for a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg and then had a brief but productive spell of research with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester
Manchester
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 in 1914. They carried out experiments to determine the wavelengths of gamma-rays of radium. He joined the Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery
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 during the First World War, and then became Professor of Physics at the Ordnance College in Woolwich in 1920.

Career

He was Quain Professor
Quain Professor
Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College, London, England. The title is derived from Richard Quain who became professor of anatomy in 1832 at what was to become UCL...

 of Physics at University College, London from 1928 to 1950, and then Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution
Royal Institution
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 for three years, until opposition to his attempts to reform the RI led to a vote of no confidence in him by members of the RI, following which he resigned.

Andrade was also was a broadcaster, on BBC
BBC
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 radio's Brains Trust.
  • The Structure of the Atom (1927)
  • Engines (1928)
  • The Mechanism of Nature (1930)
  • Simple Science with Julian Huxley
  • More Simple Science (1935) with Julian Huxley
  • An Approach to Modern Physics (1956)
  • Sir Isaac Newton (1954)
  • A Brief HIstory of the Royal Society (1960)
  • Physics for the Modern World (1962)
  • Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom (1964)


He told The Literary Digest
Literary Digest
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his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air."

His papers are held by the University of Leicester
University of Leicester
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