Joseph William Mellor

Creator

Date

c. 1902

Identifier

Mellor Papers, Photograph Album, Box 11

Publisher

Unpublished

Abstract

This photograph of Joseph William Mellor was probably taken not long after he gained his doctorate from Owens College, Manchester in 1902. The equation on the blackboard is part of van der Waals equation named for Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923). It enables scientists to calculate the transitional phases that a gas undergoes to become a liquid

Files

Mellor teaching 850 x 640.jpg

Citation

Unknown, “Joseph William Mellor,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed December 13, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/9006.