| In this paper Heaviside gave, for the first time, the conditions necessary to transmit a signal without distortion. |
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| Gibbs and Heaviside had been early exponents of the vector calculus while its chief opponents had been Tait. |
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| However, Heaviside refused the offer, declining to accept any money unless the company were to give him full recognition. |
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| Heaviside was chronically poor, making his refusal of the offer even more striking. |
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| The restored memorial was ceremonially unveiled on 30 August 2014 by Alan Heather, a distant relative of Heaviside. |
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| In 1880, Heaviside researched the skin effect in telegraph transmission lines. |
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| He invented the Heaviside step function and employed it to model the current in an electric circuit. |
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| It should be mentioned here that Heaviside was familiar with the Laplace transform method but considered his own method more direct. |
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| In 1881 Oliver Heaviside replaced Maxwell's electromagnetic potential field by 'force fields' as the centrepiece of electromagnetic theory. |
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| A few years later there was a debate between Heaviside and Peter Guthrie Tait about the relative merits of vector analysis and quaternions. |
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| It is mathematically much more convenient than Maxwell's original 20 equations and is due to Oliver Heaviside. |
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| This was the first direct indication of the reality of the Heaviside layer, proposed earlier but at this time largely dismissed by engineers. |
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| In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Heaviside worked on the concept of electromagnetic mass. |
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| Heaviside treated this as material mass, capable of producing the same effects. |
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| Heaviside also reportedly started painting his fingernails pink and had granite blocks moved into his house for furniture. |
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| Heaviside died, 3 February 1925, at Torquay in Devon, and is buried near the eastern corner of Paignton cemetery. |
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| Hardy, Oliver Heaviside, Andrew Wiles, Francis Crick, Joseph Lister, Christopher Wren and Richard Dawkins. |
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| Heaviside did much to develop and advocate vector methods and the vector calculus. |
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| In 1889, Heaviside first published a correct derivation of the magnetic force on a moving charged particle, which is now called the Lorentz Force. |
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| Heaviside also independently discovered the Poynting vector. |
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| There was a long history of animosity between Preece and Heaviside. |
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| The predictions by Heaviside, combined with Planck's radiation theory, probably discouraged further attempts to detect radio waves from the Sun and other astronomical objects. |
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| Heaviside reduced the complexity of Maxwell's theory down to four differential equations, known now collectively as Maxwell's Laws or Maxwell's equations. |
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| Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come. |
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