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Edward Weston (Shropshire , 9 de maio de 1850 — Montclair , 20 de agosto de 1936 ) foi um químico inglês .
Conhecido por suas contribuições à galvanoplastia e o desenvolvimento da célula eletroquímica , denominada célula de Weston , para voltagem padrão.[ 2] Weston foi um competidor de Thomas Edison nos dias iniciais da geração e distribuição de eletricidade.[ 3]
Célula saturada de cádmio de Weston
Referências
Woodbury, David Oakes, "A measure for greatness; a short biography of Edward Weston". Nova York , McGraw-Hill, 1949. LCCN 49049451
Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, "Measuring invisibles; the fifty-year record of the world's largest manufacturer of electrical measuring instruments". Newark, N.J., Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, c1938. LCCN 40002525 (ed. Planned and written by F. Lawrence Babcock Associates, Nova York )
Hospitalier, Édouard, et al. , "Principales applications de l'électricité" (Tr. Principal applications of electricity; Modern applications of electricity). London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1882.
1875 — 1900
1870s 1880s
1881: William Woodnut Griscom · 1885: Cyprien Chabot e Frederick Siemens · 1886: Patrick Bernard Delany , Thaddeus S. C. Lowe , Ott & Brewer , Pratt & Whitney , R. H. Ramsay e Liberty Walkup · 1887: Charles F. Albert , Hugo Bilgram , Alfred H. Cowles , Eugene H. Cowles e Thomas Shaw · 1889: Edward Alfred Cowper , Ottmar Mergenthaler , T. Hart Robertson e George Frederick Simonds · 1890: J. B. Hammond , Herman Hollerith e Mayer Hayes & Co.
1890s
1891: Stockton Bates , James H. Bevington , Bradley Allen Fiske , Tinius Olsen , Edwin F. Shaw , Samuel Matthews Vauclain e George M. Von Culin · 1892: Philip H. Holmes e Henry M. Howe · 1893: Clifford H. Batchellor , Frederic Eugene Ives , George E. Marks e Paul von Jankó · 1894: Nikola Tesla · 1895: Henry M. Howe , James Peckover e Lester Allan Pelton · 1896: Patrick Bernard Delany e Tolbert Lanston · 1897: Hamilton Castner , Elisha Gray , Charles Francis Jenkins , Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen e Joseph Wilckes · 1898: Wilbur Olin Atwater , Thomas Corscaden , Clemens Hirschel , Henri Moissan e Edward Bennett Rosa · 1900: American Cotton Company , Louis Edward Levy , Pencoyd Iron Works , Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos e Carl Auer von Welsbach
1901 — 1950
1900s
1901: Rudolf Diesel , John S. Forbes , L. M. Haupt , Mason and Hamlin e A. G. Waterhouse · 1902: C. E. Acker , Frederick Taylor e Maunsel White · 1903: G. H. Clam , J. L. Ferrell , Wilson Lindsley Gill , Victor Goldschmidt e Frank Julian Sprague · 1904: James Mapes Dodge , Wilson Lindsley Gill , Hans Goldschmidt , L. E. Levy , L.D. Lovekin , A. E. Outerbridge, Jr. e J. C. Parker · 1905: Elisha Gray e M. I. Pupin · 1906: American Paper Bottle Company e William J. Hammer · 1907: Baldwin Locomotive Works , J. L. Borsch , J. Allen Heany , F. Philips e Edward R. Taylor · 1908: Romeyn Beck Hough e Anatole Mallet · 1909: Marie Curie , Pierre Curie , Wolfgang Gaede , James Gayley , Auguste e Louis Lumière , George Owen Squier , Benjamin Talbot ,W. V. Turner , Underwood Typewriter Company , Alexis Vernasz e H. A. Wise Wood · 1910: Automatic Electric Company , John A. Brashear , Peter Cooper Hewitt , John Fritz , Robert Hadfield , Ernest Rutherford , Joseph John Thomson , Edward Weston e Harvey W. Wiley
1910s
1912: Alexander Graham Bell , William Crookes , Alfred Noble , Edward Morley , Albert Abraham Michelson , Henry Enfield Roscoe , Samuel Wesley Stratton , Elihu Thomson e Adolf von Baeyer ·
1913: Emil Berliner , Emile Fischer , William Ramsay , Isham Randolph , John William Strutt , Albert Sauveur e Charles Proteus Steinmetz · 1914: J. M. von Eder , Carl von Linde , Edgar Fahs Smith e Irmãos Wright · 1915: Michael Joseph Owens · 1916: American Telephone & Telegraph , Byron E. Eldred e Robert Gans · 1917: Edwin Fitch Northrup · 1918: Isaac Newton Lewis · 1920: William Le Roy Emmet
1920s 1930s 1940s
1951 — 1997
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
1915: Thomas Edison , Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ·
1916: John Joseph Carty , Theodore William Richards ·
1917: Hendrik Lorentz , David Watson Taylor ·
1918: Guglielmo Marconi , Thomas Corwin Mendenhall ·
1919: James Dewar , George Owen Squier ·
1920: Svante Arrhenius , Charles Algernon Parsons ·
1921: Charles Fabry , Frank Julian Sprague ·
1922: Ralph Modjeski , Joseph John Thomson ·
1923: Gustave-Auguste Ferrié , Albert Abraham Michelson ·
1924: Ernest Rutherford , Edward Weston ·
1925: Elihu Thomson , Pieter Zeeman ·
1926: Niels Bohr , Samuel Rea ·
1927: George Ellery Hale , Max Planck ·
1928: Charles Francis Brush , Walther Nernst ·
1929: Emil Berliner , Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ·
1930: William Henry Bragg , John Frank Stevens ·
1931: James Hopwood Jeans , Willis Rodney Whitney ·
1932: Philipp Lenard , Ambrose Swasey ·
1933: Paul Sabatier , Irmãos Wright ·
1934: Irving Langmuir , Henry Norris Russell ·
1935: Albert Einstein , John Ambrose Fleming ·
1936: Frank Baldwin Jewett , Charles Kettering ·
1937: Peter Debye , Robert Andrews Millikan ·
1938: William Frederick Durand , Charles August Kraus ·
1939: Edwin Powell Hubble , Albert Sauveur ·
1940: Leo Baekeland , Arthur Holly Compton ·
1941: Edwin Armstrong , Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman ·
1942: Jerome Clarke Hunsaker , Paul Dyer Merica ·
1943: George Washington Pierce , Harold Clayton Urey ·
1944: William David Coolidge , Pyotr Kapitsa ·
1945: Harlow Shapley ·
1946: Henry Clapp Sherman , Henry Tizard ·
1947: Enrico Fermi , Robert Robinson ·
1948: Wendell Meredith Stanley , Theodore von Kármán ·
1949: Theodor Svedberg ·
1950: Eugene Paul Wigner ·
1951: James Chadwick ·
1952: Wolfgang Pauli ·
1953: William Francis Gibbs ·
1954: Charles Edward Kenneth Mees ·
1955: Arne Tiselius ·
1956: Frank Whittle ·
1957: Hugh Stott Taylor ·
1958: Donald Wills Douglas ·
1959: Hans Bethe ·
1960: Roger Adams ·
1961: Detlev Bronk ·
1962: Geoffrey Ingram Taylor ·
1963: Glenn Theodore Seaborg ·
1964: Gregory Breit ·
1965: Frederick Seitz ·
1966: Britton Chance ·
1967: Murray Gell-Mann ·
1968: Marshall Nirenberg ·
1969: John Archibald Wheeler ·
1970: Wolfgang Panofsky ·
1971: Hannes Alfvén ·
1972: George Kistiakowsky ·
1973: Theodosius Dobzhansky ·
1974: Nikolai Bogoliubov ·
1975: John Bardeen ·
1976: Mahlon Hoagland ·
1977: Cyril Manton Harris ·
1978: Elias James Corey ·
1979: George Evelyn Hutchinson ·
1980: Avram Goldstein , Lyman Spitzer ·
1981: Stephen Hawking ·
1982: César Milstein , Kenneth Wilson ·
1984: Verner Suomi ·
1985: George Claude Pimentel ·
1986: Benoît Mandelbrot ·
1987: Stanley Cohen ·
1988: Donald Knuth ·
1990: Hugh Huxley , David Turnbull ·
1992: Frederick Reines ·
1995: Gerardus 't Hooft ·
1996: Richard Smalley ·
1997: Mario Capecchi