Alfred Daniell

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(1853-1937) was a Welsh-born British advocate, remembered for his contributions to Physics. His textbooks have been translated into most European languages, and other languages from

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to Japanese. Alfred Daniell

Biography

He was born in

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the son of Mayler Daniell, an accountant in 1853. He studied at the

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graduating MA LLB in 1874. He received a BSc in 1878 and DSc in 1884. He lectured in physics in medicine at the

. He was called to the

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as an advocate in 1886. In 1885 he was elected a Fellow of the

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, his proposers being

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, James Lorimer and Peter Guthrie Tait. At this time he was living at 40 Gillespie Crescent, a modest flat in the south-west of Edinburgh. He moved to

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in the late 1890s and became a Barrister of the

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in 1894, specialising in cases requiring scientific knowledge. He died on 12 January 1937 at his lodgings at Viewforth Gardens in south-west

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.Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 1938 A large collection of his papers are held by the

. Daniell never married and had no children.

Publications

*''Textbook of the Principles of Physics'' (1884) *''Physics for Students of Medicine'' *''Problems in Physics'' (1918)

References

1853 births 1937 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh British physicists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Members of the Inner Temple {{Scotland-med-bio-stub