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AFTER a very short attack of pneumonia following influenza, there passed away on Feb. 18, at the early age of forty-four years, an unusually brilliant experimenter in the person of Dr. W. D. Dye. After being educated at Portsmouth and the City and Guilds Technical College, Dye was appointed a student assistant at the National Physical Laboratory. At that time, Mr. Albert Campbell had completed his well-known standard of mutual inductance and was engaged on very precise comparisons of resistance with mutual inductance. Other work engaging Campbell's attention was an evaluation of the ohm by an alternating current method, and a study of experimental methods for the measurement of the length of wireless waves.
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Dr. W. D. Dye, F.R.S. Nature 129, 337–338 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129337a0
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