Eccles, William Henry

Eccles, William Henry

▪ British physicist
born Aug. 23, 1875, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, Eng.
died April 29, 1966, Oxford

      British physicist who pioneered in the development of radio communication.

      He received his doctorate from the Royal College of Science, London, in 1901, and then taught at South Western Polytechnic, London (1902–16), and, succeeding Silvanus Thompson, at City and Guilds Technical College, London (1916–26).

      Eccles was an early proponent of Oliver Heaviside's (Heaviside, Oliver) theory that an upper layer of the atmosphere reflects radio waves, thus enabling their transmission over long distances. He also suggested in 1912 that solar radiation accounted for the differences in wave propagation during the day and night. He experimented with detectors and amplifiers for radio reception and studied atmospheric disturbances of radio reception.

      His writings include Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy (1915) and Continuous Wave Wireless Telegraphy (1921).

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