William Ritchie (physicist)

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William Ritchie (1790-1837) was a physicist who was notable for writing the book Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus (1836). He wrote several papers on heat, electricity, and elesticity. He was regarded as a good experimenter. He studied in Paris under Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste Biot.


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