• Louis Essen OBE FRS(6 September 1908 – 24 August 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time...
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    to control the output frequency. The first caesium clock was built by Louis Essen in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK and promoted worldwide...
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    also dissatisfaction with the frequent jumps in UTC (and SAT). In 1968, Louis Essen, the inventor of the caesium atomic clock, and G. M. R. Winkler both...
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  • and statesman Louis Essen (1908–1997), English physicist Nikolai Essen (1860–1915), Russian naval commander and admiral Siri von Essen (1850–1912), Swedish/Finnish...
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    these can be used to determine the wavelength of the wave. In 1946, Louis Essen and A.C. Gordon-Smith established the frequency for a variety of normal...
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    transition of the caesium-133 atom, was built by the English physicist Louis Essen in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory in London. It was calibrated...
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    at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom in 1955 by Louis Essen in collaboration with Jack Parry. In 1949, Alfred Kastler and Jean Brossel...
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    and pianist, lived at Ridge House, 11 Groveside, from 1948 to 1954. Louis Essen, pioneer of the atomic clock, died in Great Bookham. Conor Gallagher...
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    significantly improved measurement precision. (In the following table, only Essen (1955), Jaseja (1964), and Shamir/Fox (1969) are experiments of Michelson–Morley...
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  • of Louis Essen. It is available on Amazon. One of the chapters from the memoirs includes Louis' recollections of his time at High Pavement ... Louis was...
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    based on a certain transition of the caesium-133 atom, was built by Louis Essen in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. Calibration of...
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  • in St. Louis School of Medicine, he currently serves as an Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience and maintains an active laboratory. Van Essen has held...
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    early innovators in quartz crystal oscillators include G. W. Pierce and Louis Essen. Quartz crystal oscillators were developed for high-stability frequency...
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    as a reference point. The first accurate caesium clock was built by Louis Essen in 1955 at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. Caesium clocks...
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  • Theatre, precursor to the American Ballet Theatre. Essen was born Violeta Colchagoff in Saint Louis, Missouri and raised in New York City and Los Angeles...
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    1948, as an international time standard. He subsequently worked with Louis Essen in England to calibrate the newly developed atomic clocks in terms of...
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    based on a certain transition of the caesium-133 atom, was built by Louis Essen and Jack Parry in 1955 at NPL. Calibration of the caesium standard atomic...
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  • electromagnetism (James Clerk Maxwell); the determination of the speed of light (Louis Essen); the development of antiseptics (Joseph Lister); the development of...
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    miles per second 94 years before it was scientifically calculated by Louis Essen showing the true speed was 186,000 miles per second. The Magic Staff:...
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  • Japan (born 1925) Nobel laureate Ernest Esclangon – France (1876–1954) Louis Essen – U.K. (1908–1997) Leonhard Euler – Switzerland (1707–1783) Denis Evans...
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  • electrodynamics. Therefore, fundamental criticism (like that of Herbert Dingle, Louis Essen, Petr Beckmann, Maurice Allais and Tom van Flandern) has not been taken...
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    became the first GM food on sale in the UK and in the United States. Louis Essen, a Nottingham physicist, made advances in the quartz clock in the 1930s...
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    standard based on a certain transition of the caesium-133 atom, is built by Louis Essen at the National Physical Laboratory. This clock enabled further development...
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  • intelligence official and Head of the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Louis Essen – physicist Charles Bungay Fawcett – geographer Pamela Gillies – Vice-Chancellor...
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  • John Harwood (1893–1964). 1955: First accurate atomic clock invented by Louis Essen (1908–1997). 1976: Coaxial escapement mechanism invented by George Daniels...
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  • biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1917) 24 August – Louis Essen, physicist (born 1908) 31 August Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer and...
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    Frederick Essen (April 22, 1863 – August 18, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. Born near Pond, St. Louis County, Missouri, Essen attended...
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  • Baron Blackett (ICL) Sir William Henry Bragg (UCL) Jocelyn Burnell (UCL) Louis Essen Sir John Ambrose Fleming (UCL) Dennis Gabor (ICL) Raymond Gosling (KCL)...
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  • Physical Laboratory – the birthplace of atomic timekeeping. In the 1950s, Louis Essen and John Parry constructed the atomic clock, Caesium Mk. 1. This new...
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  • turned to the piezo-electrical crystal to develop the first quartz clock. Louis Essen joined Dye's research group at the National Physical Laboratory in 1929...
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