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August 27, 1898. John Hopkinson died.—Distinguished as an engineer and a mathematical physicist, Hopkinson was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1871 was senior wrangler and Smith's prizeman. For some years he was scientific adviser to Messrs. Chance, of Birmingham, and made improvements in lighthouse apparatus. As a consulting engineer in London he took up the study of electrical problems; in 1882 patented the three-wire system, and four years later, with his brother Edward, published an important memoir on the principles of the design of dynamos. In 1890 he became professor of electrical engineering at King's College, London, and on two occasions served as president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. His death was the result of an Alpine accident.
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S., E. Calendar of Industrial Pioneers. Nature 110, 298 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110298a0
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