biography
| name: |
Brewster, Sir David
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| male
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| lived:
| (1781–1868)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Jedburgh, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, UK. He studied for the Church, became editor of the Edinburgh Magazine (1802), and of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1808). He had previously been interested in the study of optics, and in 1816 invented the kaleidoscope. In 1818 he was awarded the Rumford gold and silver medals for his discoveries on the polarization of light. He was Principal of Edinburgh University from 1859. |
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