Lionel Robert Wilberforce

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death_place = London, Britain
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Lionel Robert Wilberforce (April 18, 1861 – April 1, 1944) was a British physicist. He is best known for the invention of the Wilberforce pendulum which exhibits a curious motion in which periods of purely rotational oscillation gradually alternate with periods of purely up and down oscillation.

Life

Lionel Robert Wilberforce was born as son of Edward Wilberforce (1834-1914) in Munich Bavaria. He was a great-grandson of William Wilberforce. He was educated in England and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1884. He worked with J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and was appointed lecturer in 1900. In the same year he became professor of physics at University College, Liverpool (later University of Liverpool). He retired from this position in 1935.

Work

In 1896 he publisched is work on vibrations of a loaded spiral spring, today known as Wilberforce pendulum [cite journal|last=Wilberforce|first=Lionel Robert|date=1896|title=On the vibrations of a loaded spiral spring|journal=Philos. Mag.|volume=38|pages=386-392] Most of Wilberforces time at the University of Cambridge and University of Liverpool was dedicated to the teaching.

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*cite web
url =http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58133?_fromAuth=1
title = Lionel Robert Wilberforce (1861–1944)
publisher = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
author =Jeffrey A. Hughes
doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/58133

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NAME= Wilberforce, Lionel Robert
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= birth date|1861|4|18|df=y
PLACE OF BIRTH= Munich, Germany
DATE OF DEATH= death date|1944|1|4|df=y
PLACE OF DEATH= London, United Kingdom