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IN the introduction to his “Dissertation on the Progress of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences from 1775 to 1850”, written during 1852–1854, and published in the eighth edition of the “Encyclopædia Britannica”, J. D. Forbes mentioned as amongst the most eminent workers in physical science during the first quarter of the nineteenth century Young, Malus, Brewster, Fresnel, Arago, Volta, Dalton, Davy, Ørated, Prevost, Leslie, and Fourier, while among those whose labours belonged to the second quarter of the century he included Faraday, Melloni, Gauss, Sir John Herschel, Poisson, Mitscherlich, Liebig, and Dumas. These were to Forbes some of the outstanding physicists and chemists of his own time, and in the course of his dissertation he reviewed the work of each and gave an estimate of the worth of their achievements.
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SMITH, E. Faraday and his Contemporaries. Nature 128, 333–336 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128333a0
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