G. W. C. Kaye

1880 - 1941

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

languages spoken, written or signed:  English
educated at:  Trinity College
occupation:  physicist
award received:  Fellow of the Royal Society

George William Clarkson Kaye (8 April 1880 – 16 April 1941) was an English physicist. He is best known as one of the authors, together with Thomas Laby, of the authoritative scientific reference work Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants and Some Mathematical Functions, first published in 1911 and better known as Kaye and Laby. He was a driving force behind the formation and early years of the ‘International X-ray and Radium Protection Committee’ (IXRPC), the world's first international radiological protection body, created in 1928. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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