Robert Bellamy Clifton

Robert Bellamy Clifton FRS (13 March 1836 – 21 February 1921) was a British scientist.[1]

Robert Bellamy Clifton
Born13 March 1836
Gedney, Lincolnshire
Died21 February 1921 (1921-02-22) (aged 84)
Oxford

Academic career

Clifton was educated at University College, London and St John's College, Cambridge where he studied under Sir George Stokes.[2] In 1860 he went to Owens College, Manchester as Professor of Natural Philosophy. In 1865 he was appointed Professor of experimental Natural Philosophy at Oxford University. While at Oxford he designed Clarendon Laboratory and gave research space to Charles Vernon Boys. [3] [4] On 4 June 1868 he became a fellow of the Royal Society. He was president of the Physical Society (now Institute of Physics) from 1882 until 1884. From 1868 until his retirement in 1915 he was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.[5]

Family

Clifton's father was the clergyman Robert Cox Clifton. His daughter Catharine Edith was married to the surgeon Henry Souttar.

References
  1. Royal Astronomical Society. "Obituaries". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. LXXXII: 248. doi:10.1093/mnras/82.4.248.
  2. Cahan,David (2012). "Helmholtz and the British scientific elite: From force conservation to energy conservation". Notes Rec. R. Soc. 66: 55–68. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2011.0044.
  3. Gooday, Graeme and Fox, Robert (editors) (1998). Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567929.001.0001. ISBN 9780198567929. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. "Physics at the university of Oxford". oxford university. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  5. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 1.


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