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ADAIR, John Frederick

Born Dublin, Ireland, 1853(?). Education Trinity College Dublin (B.A. 1873) and Pembroke College, Cambridge (7th Wrangler 1878). Assistant master, Derby School, England, 1878-79. Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1879-85. Demonstrator in in physics Sydney University 1887-90.
  1. (Abstract) (With R. Threlfall) On the velocity of transmission through sea-water of disturbances of large amplitude caused by explosions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 45 (1888-89), 450-451.
  2. (With R. Threlfall) On the velocity of transmission through sea-water of disturbances of large amplitude caused by explosions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 46 (1889), 496-541.
  3. (Tr. with R. Threlfall) J.D. Van der Waals, 'The continuity of the liquid and gaseous states of matter', Physical Memoirs, selected and translated from Foreign Sources, Vol. 1, Pt. 3 (London: Physical Society, 1890), pp. 333-496.
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