Silvanus P. Thompson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Silvanus P. Thompson

British academic physicist

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1851

Place of Birth: York, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 12-Jun-1916

Profession: writer, engineer, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Silvanus Phillips Thompson (19 June 1851 – 12 June 1916) was a professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England.
He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author.
Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910 text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print.
Thompson also wrote a popular physics text, Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, as well as biographies of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday.