Daniel Frost Comstock

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Daniel Frost Comstock (August 14, 1883 — 1970) was an American physicist und engineer.

He attained the B.S. at the MIT in 1904. He also studied in Berlin, Zürich, and Basel, where he attained his Ph.D. in 1906. And at the University of Cambridge (1906–1907) he studied under J. J. Thomson. Beginning in 1904 he was a member of the teaching body of the MIT in theoretical physics (assistant professor 1910-1915; associate professor 1915-1917).^[1]

Comstock is most well known as the co-founder of the company Kalmus, Comstock & Westcott, which later was known as Technicolor, the second major color film process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color motion picture process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952.^[2]

Comstock also published some theoretical papers in the fields of electrodynamics (1908), special relativity (1910a), emission theory (1910b).

[edit] References

1. ^ Cattell and Brimhall, American Men of Science, Third Edition (1921), p. 140
2. ^ Tom Huntington, AmericanHeritage: FROM BLACK & WHITE TO TECHNICOLOR

[edit] Publications

• Comstock, D.F. (1908), "The Relation of Mass to Energy", Philosophical Magazine, 6 15 (85): 1-21 

• Comstock, D.F. (1910), "The principle of relativity", Science 31: 767–772, doi:10.1126/science.31.803.767 

• Comstock, D.F. (1910), "A neglected type of relativity", Phys. Rev. 30: 267 

• Comstock, D.F. & Troland, L.T. (1917), The nature of matter and electricity : an outline of modern views, New York: D. Van Nostrand, http://www.archive.org/details/natureofmatterel00comsrich 

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NAME	Comstock, Daniel Frost
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American physicist und engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	14 August 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	1970
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