Daniel Frost Comstock
Daniel Frost Comstock (* 14. August 1883, †?) was an American physicist und engineer.
He studied at the Universities of: MIT (1904), University of Berlin (1905), University of Zurich (1906), University of Basel (1906, where he earned his PhD), University of Cambridge ( 1906-1907) under Joseph John Thomson. Beginning in 1904 he was a member of the teaching body of the MIT in theoretical physics.[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 special relativity,[3] emission theory[4] and electrodynamics.[5]
References
- ^ GeneaSearch.com: Men of 1914 Biographical Sketches
- ^ Tom Huntington, AmericanHeritage: FROM BLACK & WHITE TO TECHNICOLOR
- ^ Comstock, D.F. (1910), "The Principle of Relativity", Science, 31: 767–772
- ^ 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
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