Peddie biography
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William Peddie
William PeddieFRSE LLD (31 May 1861 – 2 June 1946) was a Scottish physicist and applied mathematician, known for his research on colour vision and molecular magnetism.[1]
Life
[edit]He was born in Papa Westray in Orkney on 31 May 1861 the son of Rev John Peddie and his wife, Marion Beashe. He was educated at Kirkwall Grammar School.[2]
He studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Edinburgh graduating BSc in 1887 and gaining a doctorate (DSc) in 1888.[3] He had been assisting in lectures in Natural Philosophy (Physics) since 1883 and became a formal lecturer in 1892. In 1907 he succeeded J. P. Kuenen as Professor of Physics at University College, Dundee, a post he would hold for 35 years.[1][4]
He wrote numerous scientific papers and several books. He annotated the 5th edition of Tait's Properties of Matter.[5]
In 1887 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Peter Guthrie Tait, Sir Thomas Muir, George Chrystal, and Alexander Crum Brown.[6] He was awarded the Society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for 1896–1898, and served as the Society's vice president from 1919 to 1922.[1] He was President of the Edinburgh Mathematical So
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Biography
William Peddie's father was John Peddie (born in Methven, Perthshire about 1813) who was the minister of Papa Westray Free Church. His mother was Marion S Beashe (born in Bathgate, Linlithgow about 1831). William Peddie had an older sister Marion (born 1860) and a younger brother David (born 1963).William Peddie attended Kirkwall Grammar School, Orkney, and then studied at the University of Edinburgh, being awarded a B.Sc. in 1887 and then a D.Sc. in the following year. He was appointed as an Assistant in Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University in 1883 becoming a Lecturer in 1892. He remained in this post until appointed as Professor of Physics at University College, Dundee, in 1907. He held this post until 1942. While in Dundee he oversaw the building of the Carnegie Physics Laboratory - this building still stands in the Geddes Quadrangle on campus. He married Jessie Isabella Dott (born in Edinburgh about 1864) in 1891.
His publications include Manual of Physics(1891), The Elementary Dynamics of Solids and Fluids(1909), Colour Vision(1922), and Molecular Magnetism(1929). He wrote on mathematics and thermodynamics and equipatition of energy. He also carried out experiments on the properties of metals when twisted, colour (a subjec