Daniel Frost Comstock
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Daniel Frost Comstock (born August 14, 1883; † ?) was an American physicist und engineer.
He studied at the Universities of: MIT (1904), University of Berlin (1905), University of Zurich (1906), University of Basel (1906, where he earned his PhD), University of Cambridge (1906–1907) under J. J. Thomson. Beginning in 1904 he was a member of the teaching body of the MIT in theoretical physics.[1]
Comstock is most well known as the co-founder of the company Kalmus, Comstock & Westcott, which later was known as Technicolor, the second major color film process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color motion picture process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952.[2]
Comstock also published some theoretical papers in the fields of special relativity,[3] emission theory[4] and electrodynamics.[5]
- Further information: History of special relativity#Further development after 1905
[edit] References
- ^ GeneaSearch.com: Men of 1914 Biographical Sketches
- ^ Tom Huntington, AmericanHeritage: FROM BLACK & WHITE TO TECHNICOLOR
- ^ Comstock, D.F. (1910), “The Principle of Relativity”, Science 31: 767-772
- ^ Comstock, D.F. (1910), “A neglected type of relativity”, Phys. Rev. 30: 267
- ^ Comstock, D.F. & Troland, L.T. (1917), The nature of matter and electricity : an outline of modern views, New York: D. Van Nostrand
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| NAME | Comstock, Daniel Frost |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American physicist und engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14 August 1883 |
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| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |
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