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Joseph Swan

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Also known as Joseph Wilson Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan

British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)

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Joseph Wilson Swan (1828–1914) was a British chemist, physicist, inventor, and engineer. Born in Sunderland and dying in Surrey, he held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Swan was a member of both the Royal Institution and the Royal Society. His professional work focused on the fields of physics and chemistry.

He received several honors, including the Fellow of the Royal Society, the Legion of Honour, the Hughes Medal, and the Albert Medal. Swan’s works are held in the collection of the Tate. He is described in sources such as the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition and the New International Encyclopedia.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1791
Died
1874
Works
26

Top works

  • Névrologie
  • An account of a new method of making dried anatomical preparations
  • The brain in relation to the mind
  • The special communications of the motive segments of the crus of the brain with the intellect
  • Nouvelle méthode pour faire les préparations anatomiques sèches, et leur conserver l'apparence et les avantages des préparations fraiches, sans en avoir les inconvéniens

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1732-03-31
Active to
1809-05-31
150 cdaustrianaustrian composerclassicalclassical musicclassical period

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
698
Total plays
2,216

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joseph+Swan">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

    · 2016 · cited 40,242x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,474x

  3. Naturalistic inquiry

    · 1985 · cited 34,749x

  4. When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM

    · 2019 · cited 21,472x

  5. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

    · 1985 · cited 19,718x

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Key facts

Born
Joseph Wilson Swan , ( 1828-10-31 ) 31 October 1828, Bishopwearmouth , Sunderland , County Durham , England
Died
27 May 1914 (1914-05-27) (aged 85), Warlingham , Surrey , England
Known for
Incandescent light bulb , Photographic process
Awards
Legion of Honour (1881) , Hughes Medal (1904) , Albert Medal (1906)
Fields
Physics , Chemistry

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is responsible for developing the first use of incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.

In 1904, Swan was knighted by King Edward VII, awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and was made a member of the Pharmaceutical Society. He had received the highest decoration in France, the Legion of Honour, when he visited the 1881 International Exposition of Electricity, Paris. The exhibition included displays of his inventions, and the city was lit with his electric lighting.

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