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# Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science

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Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science - Kindle edition by Mahon, Basil. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science.

Review: Lively biography of a Victorian eccentric - An affectionate biography of a most unusual Victorian eccentric. Oliver Heaviside came from a modest background, had no university training, worked as an electrical engineer for a few years only, then retired to live on a minimal income a reclusive and rather misanthropic life. Yet he, and a few distinguished scientific friends, took James Clerk Maxwell’s revolutionary theory of electromagnetism and turned it into the most important pillar of the new physics of Einstein and Planck. Basil Mahon is already familiar to me as the author of an excellent biography of Maxwell (‘The Man Who Changed Everything’). This book is in his lively, readable style, and can be enjoyed by everyone, with or without scientific training. Having just finished reading it, I am now going to start again, and take notes! The Kindle edition is well produced, with very few typos; it is illustrated, with notes, bibliography, and index.
Review: Wonderful - I ran through reading this book so quick, it surprised me. I liked it very much, but then the subject matter truly intrigued me. I am just amazed that so much of what I learned as a physicist was the result of someone that I had never heard of. I actually used it for some of my research.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B01N0S90BN |
| Accessibility  | Learn more |
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,378,802 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #933 in Scientist Biographies #939 in Biographies of Scientists #1,802 in History & Philosophy of Science (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (114) |
| Enhanced typesetting  | Enabled |
| File size  | 3.1 MB |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1633883321 |
| Language  | English |
| Page Flip  | Enabled |
| Print length  | 298 pages |
| Publication date  | September 12, 2017 |
| Publisher  | Prometheus |
| Screen Reader  | Supported |
| Word Wise  | Enabled |
| X-Ray  | Enabled |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lively biography of a Victorian eccentric
*by J***N on June 18, 2020*

An affectionate biography of a most unusual Victorian eccentric. Oliver Heaviside came from a modest background, had no university training, worked as an electrical engineer for a few years only, then retired to live on a minimal income a reclusive and rather misanthropic life. Yet he, and a few distinguished scientific friends, took James Clerk Maxwell’s revolutionary theory of electromagnetism and turned it into the most important pillar of the new physics of Einstein and Planck. Basil Mahon is already familiar to me as the author of an excellent biography of Maxwell (‘The Man Who Changed Everything’). This book is in his lively, readable style, and can be enjoyed by everyone, with or without scientific training. Having just finished reading it, I am now going to start again, and take notes! The Kindle edition is well produced, with very few typos; it is illustrated, with notes, bibliography, and index.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful
*by J***D on April 29, 2020*

I ran through reading this book so quick, it surprised me. I liked it very much, but then the subject matter truly intrigued me. I am just amazed that so much of what I learned as a physicist was the result of someone that I had never heard of. I actually used it for some of my research.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ good book
*by I***N on August 12, 2018*

This is a good book. Not too many science books leave me crying, but this one did. Well, it's a combo isn't it: science book and biography. It is well written and even though I knew the story and what was happening, the writing was so good at the end that a tear or two welled up, thinking about how this amazing eccentric genius was so shabbily treated in his professional life. I had read Paul Nahin's book (also reviewed here) as well as Hunt's Maxwellians and Mahon's earlier tag-team volume on Faraday and Maxwell. So I was familiar with the details, as I said above. Surely there isn't much more we can hope to know about the subject now as the sources must be all but entirely used. Having said that, I agree with the author's motivation for writing yet another book on Heaviside: to try to help him reach as wide an audience as possible. Good intent, and well executed. The problem with such a subject and aim is that repetition is unavoidable. Mahon mostly stays clear of the mathematics that Nahin embraced, so that may be an attractor for many potential readers. But that apart, the story is much the same, the structure necessarily similar, and even the illustrations much the same. To nitpick on a small point, I was surprised to see the same use Nahin makes of a Pais appendix in his bio of Einstein, about Oliver being nominated for the physics Nobel in 1912. As I pointed out in my Nahin review, in fact between 1904 and 1914 Heaviside was nominated for the prize 7 times. (My source is a simple internet search that resulted in a website called physicsnobel.com/nominations.) It is astonishing to me that given the underwhelming but very practical discoveries that resulted in the prize in some of those years, that breakthroughs of his such as the distortion-free transmission line or the powerful role of inductance in better transmission, were not judged worthy of anointing. Such curious or even combative notions are not taken up by the author. Never mind, a good book as I said, one that enjoyed very much.

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