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Eve, Arthur Stewart

Arthur Stewart Eve (11.09.1862-14.03.1948) was a Canadian physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (president in 1919 — 30). He was born in England. He graduated from the University of Cambridge (1884). From 1903 he worked at McGill University in Montreal (professor in 1910 —35, head of the department in 1919-35 and dean in 1930-35). His work concerned radioactivity, the history of physics and geophysics. He was the author of biographies of E. Rutherford and J. Tyndall.