Major Charles Edmund Stanley Phillips OBE FIP

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(18 February 1871 – 17 October 1945) was a 20th-century British physicist and radiologist. He was also a gifted amateur artist. One of the founders of the Institute of Physics in 1920, the Phillips Award is named in his honour.

Life

He was born in London on 18 February 1871 the son of Samuel E. Phillips, founder of the submarine cable company, Johnson and Phillips. He studied at the Central Technical College in South Kensington. In 1895, at the invention of x-rays he became hugely interested in this field. He created his own laboratory at

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in south-east London. In 1906 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Alexander Scott, Sir James Dewar and William Hodgkinson. He was President of the British Institute of Radiology 1930/31. In the First World War he was commissioned in the West Kent Regiment rising to the rank of Major. He died at Lymington in Hampshire on 17 October 1945.

Known artworks

*Portrait of William Henry Bragg who was a personal friend. *The Old Mill at Winchelsea He also experimented with abstract art.

Publications

*''Bibliography of X-Ray Literature and Research 1896-97''

References

1871 births 1945 deaths Scientists from London British radiologists British artists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh British Army personnel of World War I Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment officers {{UK-med-bio-stub