Franz Arthur Friedrich (Arthur) Schuster
1851–1934
German-born mathematical physicist. Moved to Manchester in 1870. Studied mathematics and physics at Owens College, Manchester, and Heidelberg, 1871–4. Participated in expeditions to photograph the coronal spectrum during the total solar eclipse in Bangkok, 1875; Colorado, 1878; Egypt, 1882; the West Indies, 1886. Professor of applied mathematics at Owens College, 1881; professor of physics, 1888. Dean of science, University of Manchester, 1903–5. Worked in a variety of fields, from spectroscopy to earth-physics; developed the periodogram, 1897–8. FRS 1879.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
