Edward Andrade

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS was an English physicist, writer, and poet. He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air. In the scientific world Andrade is best known for work that first determined the wavelength of a type of gamma radiation, proving it was far higher in energies than Xrays known at the time. In popular culture he was best known for his appearances on The Brains Trust.

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