Arthur Schuster, with 1st. Baron Blythswood, on the steps of Blythswood House in Renfrewshire. Photograph, c. 1901.

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1901
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33274i
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Arthur Schuster, with 1st. Baron Blythswood, on the steps of Blythswood House in Renfrewshire. Photograph, c. 1901. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The photograph is one of a collection depicting Sir Arthur Schuster (1851-1934), his family and friends. Sir Arthur, a British physicist and professor in applied mathematics and physics at the University of Manchester, was a pioneer in spectroscopy and terrestrial magnetism, inventing the Schuster-Smith magnetometer, a standard instrument for measuring the earth's magnetic force. This photograph and others (mostly depicting his work with x-rays) were presented to the Wellcome Institute by his daughter, Dr. Nora H. Schuster, in 1962

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1901

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1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin ; sheet 10.9 x 8.2 cm

Lettering

Lord Blythswood and Arthur Schuster Nov. 7 1901. ... Lettering written on verso in pencil by N.H. Schuster, and continues: "The white bearded man is Lord Blythswood taken at Blyth I think"

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Wellcome Collection 33274i

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