Arthur Prince Chattock, FRS (14 August 1860 – 1 July 1934) was a British

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Career

Chattock was educated at

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and

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. After a short time as an electrical engineer for Siemens he returned to University College, London to study under George Carey Foster. In 1885 he succeeded Silvanus P. Thompson at

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, Bristol as demonstrator in Physics. Chattock spent two years (1887-9) in Liverpool with

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where in February 1888 he worked on key experiments towards the understanding of radio waves. Later he returned to Bristol and took up the chair of Physics in 1893. Chattock had to leave the university in 1910 as it struggled with its new university status, the acting head of the physics department role being taken by Arthur Mannering Tyndall. After leaving Chattock became a chicken farmer in

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. But Tyndall invited Chattock back after the war in 1919 where he carried out definitive experiments on the gyromagnetic ratio of

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. He became a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) on 13 May 1920 and finally retired in 1924. After retirement Chattock continued to publish about his research into poultry. He was a supporter of

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with an interest in telepathy. He was associated with the

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(SPR). He died at home in Clifton Bristol in 1934 with Obituaries appearing in the ''Journal of Institution of Electrical Engineers'',

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, and ''Nature''.

Publications

* An instrument for the measurement of the co-efficients of electro-magnetic induction; Liverpool; ~1888 * On the Specific Velocities of Ions in the Discharge from Points; 1901 * On the Richardson Gyro-magnetic effect; 1923 * On the physics of incubation; 1925 * Gaseous ions : Bristol, 1899-1928

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chattock, Arthur Prince 1860 births 1934 deaths Academics of University College Bristol Alumni of University College London English physicists Experimental physicists Fellows of the Royal Society British parapsychologists People associated with the University of Liverpool Scientists from Bristol People from Solihull