Oliver Heaviside
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Oliver Heaviside was an English self-taught physicist, electrical engineer, and mathematician known for reformulating Maxwell’s equations into their modern vector form and pioneering transmission line theory.
Aliases (1)
- Heaviside ×1
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electrical engineer
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human → mathematician → physicist → self-taught scientist → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom → |
| dateOfBirth |
1850-05-18
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| dateOfDeath |
1925-02-03
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| educatedAt |
self-taught
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| employer |
Great Northern Telegraph Company
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| ethnicGroup |
English
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| familyName |
Heaviside
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| fieldOfWork |
electrical engineering
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electromagnetism → mathematics → telecommunications → vector calculus → |
| givenName |
Oliver
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| hasAcademicDiscipline |
applied mathematics
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classical electromagnetism → |
| influenced |
electrical engineering practice
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radio engineering → theoretical physics → |
| influencedBy |
James Clerk Maxwell
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin → |
| knownFor |
Heaviside step function
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Heaviside–Lorentz units → operational calculus → prediction of an ionized reflecting layer in the upper atmosphere → reformulation of Maxwell's equations → skin effect analysis in conductors → telegrapher's equations → transmission line theory → vector form of Maxwell's equations → work on signal distortion in telegraph lines → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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| notableConcept |
Heaviside step function
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Heaviside–Lorentz units → operational calculus → telegrapher's equations → vector form of Maxwell's equations → |
| occupation |
telegraph operator
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| placeOfBirth |
Camden Town
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London → |
| placeOfDeath |
Devon
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England → Torquay → |
| residence |
London
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Torquay → |
| sexOrGender |
male
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Referenced by (7)
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Heaviside–Kennelly layer
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Kennelly–Heaviside layer theory → |
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Arthur E. Kennelly
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Arthur E. Kennelly
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Oliver Heaviside
("Heaviside")
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familyName |
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James Clerk Maxwell
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influenced |
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Kennelly–Heaviside layer theory
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proposedBy |