Major Charles Edmund Stanley Phillips OBE FIP
FRSE
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(18 February 1871 – 17 October 1945) was a 20th-century British physicist and radiologist. He was also a gifted amateur artist.
One of the founders of the Institute of Physics in 1920, the Phillips Award is named in his honour.
Life
He was born in London on 18 February 1871 the son of Samuel E. Phillips, founder of the submarine cable company, Johnson and Phillips.
He studied at the Central Technical College in
South Kensington. In 1895, at the invention of
x-rays he became hugely interested in this field. He created his own laboratory at
Shooters Hill
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in south-east London.
In 1906 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin,
Alexander Scott, Sir
James Dewar and
William Hodgkinson. He was President of the British Institute of Radiology 1930/31.
In the
First World War he was commissioned in the
West Kent Regiment rising to the rank of Major.
He died at
Lymington in
Hampshire on 17 October 1945.
Known artworks
*Portrait of
William Henry Bragg who was a personal friend.
*The Old Mill at
Winchelsea
He also experimented with abstract art.
Publications
*''Bibliography of X-Ray Literature and Research 1896-97''
References
1871 births
1945 deaths
Scientists from London
British radiologists
British artists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
British Army personnel of World War I
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment officers
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