John Hopkinson
Physicist, Academic
1849 – 1898
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Who was John Hopkinson?
John Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882. He also worked in many areas of electromagnetism and electrostatics, and in 1890 was appointed professor of electrical engineering at King's College London, where he was also director of the Siemens Laboratory.
Hopkinson's law, the magnetic counterpart to Ohm's law, is named after him.
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- Born
- Jul 27, 1849
Manchester - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- University of London
- Lived in
- Manchester
- Died
- Aug 27, 1898
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on July 23, 2013
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