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Revision as of 19:56, 1 December 2018
Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was a British electrical engineer and physicist.
He is known for inventing the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
He is also famous for the left hand rule (for electric motors).
On 11 June 1887 he married Clara Ripley (1856/7–1917), daughter of Walter Freake Pratt, a solicitor from Bath. On 27 July 1928 he married the popular young singer Olive May Franks (b. 1898/9), of Bristol, daughter of George Franks, a Cardiff businessman.
In the News
Crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Harold Barlow (nonfiction) - Doctoral student
- Frederick Guthrie (nonfiction) - Doctoral advisor
- Physicist (nonfiction)
- Balthasar van der Pol (nonfiction) - Notable student
External links:
- John Ambrose Fleming @ Wikipedia