Rayleigh’s Directorship, 1880–1884
2002; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-94-017-2055-7_2
ISSN2215-0064
Autores Tópico(s)Medical History and Innovations
ResumoMaxwell’s health began to fail early in 1879, and he died in Cambridge on November 5, 1879 at the age of 48. For the Cambridge scientific community, his death was a double calamity: not only had they lost a great scientist, but his passing also threatened the future of the Cavendish Laboratory. According to the regulations of his professorship, the chair was to “terminate with the tenure of office of the Professor first elected, unless the University by Grace of the Senate shall decide that the Professorship shall be continued.” On November 20, the Senate passed a resolution that “the Professorship of Experimental Physics, established by Grace of the Senate Feb. 9, 1871, be continued, subject to the regulations then enacted so far they are now applicable.”3 Cambridge leaders concerned with physical science were eager to attract to the position a worthy successor to Maxwell.
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