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Oliver Heaviside

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English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)

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At the end of the 19th century, Oliver Heaviside used formal Fourier series to manipulate the unit impulse. Source: Internet

Some of Hamilton's supporters vociferously opposed the growing fields of vector algebra and vector calculus (from developers like Oliver Heaviside and Josiah Willard Gibbs ), because quaternions provide superior notation. Source: Internet

Its existence was predicted in 1902 independently and almost simultaneously by the American electrical engineer Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1861–1939) and the British physicist Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925). Source: Internet

The English electrical engineer Oliver Heaviside first proposed a similar scheme, although without using the Laplace transform; and the resulting operational calculus is credited as the Heaviside calculus. Source: Internet

Science, p. 18, 1888 Oliver Heaviside, The Electrician, p. 212, 23 July 1886, reprinted as Electrical Papers, p 64, AMS Bookstore, ISBN 0-8218-3465-7 Arthur Kennelly was the first to represent impedance with complex numbers in 1893. Source: Internet

The term impedance was coined by Oliver Heaviside in July 1886. Source: Internet

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