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RefNoMS/603/8/143
Previous numbers1480
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TitleLetter from E F [Ernest Fox] Nichols, Columbia University, Department of Physics, Phoenix Laboratories, New York City, to [Joseph] Larmor
CreatorNichols; Ernest Fox (1869-1924); American physicist
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date4 March 1906
DescriptionHe has delayed in writing in order to send some centrifugal news, but there has been nothing but disappointment and delay. He intends to try Larmor's suggested experiment of putting an electrolyte in an insulating spherical shell and rotating it about an axis if the dip angle. V. Calcar and [Adriaan Lobry] de Bruyn have settled the main questions, he thinks, by getting changes in concentration by centrifugal acceleration. He is uncertain whether the effect [John Norman] Colley got was real. Nichols is waiting for Larmor's electrolysis manuscript to appear and he likes the idea of centrifugal separation of charges in solar cyclones: 'It must have occurred to you that there lies behind it a fine theory of our magnetic storms accompanying solar disturbances...I wish you would work it up for the astro-physicists'. Nichols praises [Robert Williams] Wood's last paper on sodium vapour flourescence. Nichols is indebted to Larmor for what he did for F.C. Blake, who needed good advice. [Vilhelm] Bjerkius has come and gone and left a good impression and Nichols will send a copy of his lectures when printed. [Hendrik] Lorentz will be there in a fortnight. He gives an account of a Cambridge reunion evening at the December meeting of the Physical Society in New York. He hears from Hull occasionally, who was badly advised by J.J. [Joseph John] Thomson.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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