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Sutherland, William (1859 - 1911) |
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| Physicist and Physical chemist | ||||
| Born: 24 August 1859 Glasgow, Scotland. Died: 5 October 1911 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | ||||
| William Sutherland was a writer for The Age in Melbourne and a private researcher who investigated the viscosity of gases and liquids, molecular attraction, valency, ionization, ionic velocities, atomic sizes and an electronic theory of matter. |
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| Born Glasgow, Scotland, 4 August 1859. Died Melbourne, 5 October 1911. Educated University of Melbourne (BA 1979, MA 1883) and University College London (BSc 1881). Private coaching; examiner, University of Melbourne; acting lecturer in natural philosophy, University of Melbourne 1888, acting professor 1899; regular contributor to the Melbourne Age from 1901, especially on scientific topics. Undertook theoretical investigations, chiefly in the field of molecular dynamics; the results were published as 78 scientific papers, mostly in major international journals. His model, the Sutherland model, assumed that the particles of which matter is composed exert an attractive force on each other (now known as the 'Sutherland potential') in addition to gravity. He also studied the dependence of the viscosity of a gas on its temperature, developing a formula which included a constant for any particular gas that is now called Sutherland's Constant. | ||
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