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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS
Royal Society

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 (December 27, 1887 - June 6, 1971), was an English
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 physicist
Physicist

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, writer and poet.

ade was a Sephardi Jew
Sephardi Jews

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 and descendant of the British banker 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 was wrongly thought to be on the board of the Bank of England....
, through whom he is related to the comedian and radio personality, Sam Costa
Sam Costa

Samuel Gabriel 'Sam' Costa was a singer and a voice actor on the show Much Binding In The Marsh. He was also a Radio Luxembourg and BBC disc jockey....
.

He 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.






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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS
Royal Society

The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, or even the Royal, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and is considered by most to be the oldest such society still in existence....
 (December 27, 1887 - June 6, 1971), was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
, writer and poet.

Background

Andrade was a Sephardi Jew
Sephardi Jews

Sephardi Jews are a subgroup of Jews originating in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, usually defined in contrast to Ashkenazi or Mizrahi Jews....
 and descendant of the British banker 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 was wrongly thought to be on the board of the Bank of England....
, through whom he is related to the comedian and radio personality, Sam Costa
Sam Costa

Samuel Gabriel 'Sam' Costa was a singer and a voice actor on the show Much Binding In The Marsh. He was also a Radio Luxembourg and BBC disc jockey....
.

He 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

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
 in 1914. They worked to show the wave nature of gamma ray
Gamma ray

Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation produced by atom particle interactions, such as electron-positron annihilation or radioactive decay....
s, and on X-ray spectra. 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

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 of Physics at the University of London
University of London

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 from 1928 to 1950, and then Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution
Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organization devoted to scientific education and research, based in London. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president, George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, for "diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general int...
 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 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
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 his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air."

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