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David Brewster

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David Brewster

Brewster, c. 1850s
Mibait11 ya ing Diciembre 1781
Canongate, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Gran Bretaña
Mete10 ya ing Febrero 1868 (edad 86)
Allerly House, Gattonside, Roxburghshire, Gran Bretaña ampóng Pangulung Irlanda
Kapanintunan/propesion
AsawaJuliet Macpherson (m. 1810; mété1850); Jane Kirk Purnell ​ (m. 1857)
Ának5

I Sir David Brewster (11 ya ing Diciembre 1781 - 10 ya ing Febrero 1868) métung yang Escocés (Scottish) a cientifico, inventor, talasúlat ampóng talapanibálang academico. King ciencia tatandánan dé kéraklan king óbrá nang experimental king optica fisica (physical optic), a kéraklan tungkul king pámagáral king polarización ning sála, kayábé ya ing pámanuklas ning Brewster's angle. Pénigarálán né ing birefringence da réng cristal kábang papalparan (crystals under compression) at átuklasán né ing photoelasticity,[1] at úli na níti lélangán né ing larángan o kaparángán ning optical mineralogy.[2] Úli ning óbrá nang iti, ináus néng William Whewell a "ibpá ning makabáyung experimental a óptica" ampóng "ing Johannes Kepler ning óptica."[3]

  1. Thomas J. Bress (2009), "The Influence of Processing and Fluid Parameters on Injection Molding Flow". University of Michigan. ISBN 1-109-11089-8. p. 14.
  2. A. D. Morrison-Low (2004) "Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3371Template:Only in print
  3. William Whewell (1859) History of the Inductive Sciences. D. Appleton. p. 133