James Robert Milne PRSSA

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( 1880 – 3 February 1961) was a 20th-century Scottish physicist. He served as president of the

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from 1923 to 1925.

Life

He graduated with a BSc from the

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in 1899. He was an early radio engineer and ran the Edinburgh and District Radio Society from around 1900. In 1904 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, and

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. In 1923 he succeeded Richard Stanfield as President of the society. In 1925 he was succeeded in turn by Robert Stuart Pilcher. From 1912 to 1946 he lectured in physics at the University of Edinburgh. He died in Edinburgh on 3 February 1961.

References

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