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British physicist and radiologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Major Charles Edmund Stanley Phillips OBE FIP FRSE (18 February 1871 – 17 October 1945) was a 20th-century British physicist and radiologist. He was also a gifted amateur artist.
One of the founders of the Institute of Physics in 1920, the Phillips Award is named in his honour.[1]
He was born in London on 18 February 1871 the son of Samuel E. Phillips, founder of the submarine cable company, Johnson and Phillips.
He studied at the Central Technical College in South Kensington. In 1895, at the invention of x-rays he became hugely interested in this field. He created his own laboratory at Shooters Hill in south-east London.[2]
In 1906 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Alexander Scott, Sir James Dewar and William Hodgkinson. He was President of the British Institute of Radiology 1930/31.[3]
In the First World War he was commissioned in the West Kent Regiment rising to the rank of Major.[4]
He also experimented with abstract art.
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