Sir Thomas Henry Havelock FRS (24 June 1877 – 1 August 1968) was an English applied mathematician, hydrodynamicist and mathematical physicist.[1][2][3] He is known for Havelock's law (1907).[4][5]

Havelock was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the age of sixteen, he entered Durham College of Physical Science. (Durham College of Physical Science was renamed Armstrong College in 1904.) He matriculated in 1897 at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated there B.A. in 1900 and M.A. in 1904. From 1903 to 1909 he was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was a professor of applied mathematics at Armstrong College from 1914 until his retirement in 1945. (In the 1930s Armstrong College became part of King's College, Durham, which in the 1960s became part of Newcastle University.)

Havelock's law

Relationship between the refractive index and the wavelength of a homogeneous material that transmits light:[6][5]

, where
= constant for the material at a given temperature
= Kerr constant of the material (The Kerr constant is approximately proportional to the absolute temperature.)
= wavelength of the material
= refractive index of the material

Awards and honours

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. "Havelock, Thomas Henry (HVLK897TH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. Binnie, A. M.; Roberts, P. H. (1971). "Thomas Henry Havelock. 1877–1968". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 17: 327–377. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0013. JSTOR 769711. S2CID 71812481.
  3. Roberts, P. H. (1970). "Thomas Henry Havelock". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 2 (2): 221–232. doi:10.1112/blms/2.2.221.
  4. Charney, E. (2012). "National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases, National Institutes of Health." Molecular Electro-Optics: Electro-Optic Properties of Macromolecules and Colloids in Solution 64, 213–227
  5. 1 2 Havelock, T. H. (1907). "The Dispersion of Double Refraction in Relation to Crystal Structure". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character. 80 (535): 28–44. Bibcode:1907RSPSA..80...28H. doi:10.1098/rspa.1907.0071. Havelock's Law
  6. Hall, Carl W. (1999). "Havelock Law". Laws and Models: Science, Engineering, and Technology. p. 204. ISBN 9781420050547.
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