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THE death of Dr. John Gaston Leathern on March 19, at the age of nearly fifty-two years, removes a scholar who was prominent in the world of Cambridge mathematics. Coming from Queen's College, Belfast, in 1891, he made his mark in the triposes of 1894 and 1895. He held the Isaac Newton studentship for astronomy and physical optics during the period 1896–99, soon gaining also a fellowship at St. John's College. His interests were then mainly in electro-dynamic theory; and the work of his studentship produced a memoir (Phil. Trans., 1897, pp. 89–127) which ought to be classical, in which the theory of the magneto-optic rotation of light and the cognate reflection effect were finally systematised and coordinated, under the test of laborious comparisons with the numerical experimental data.
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L., J. Dr. J. G. Leathem. Nature 111, 437 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111437a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111437a0