Milne

Edward Arthur Milne

Born: 14 Feb 1896 in Hull, Yorkshire, England
Died: 21 Sept 1950 in Dublin, Ireland

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Milne was educated at Cambridge, where he was inspired by Chapman and Hardy. His defective eyesight prevented him from fighting in World War I. Instead he worked on ballistics at the Anti-Aircraft Section. He was appointed to the Rouse Ball Chair at Oxford, being the first holder. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1926.

Milne's interests were in applied mathematics, in particular he studied astrophysics and the structure of stellar atmospheres. He developed a new form of relativity called kinematic relativity, an alternative to Einstein's general theory of relativity, which met with condiderable opposition.

His books include Thermodynamics of the Stars (1930), Relativity, Gravitation and World-Structure (1935), and Kinematic Relativity (1948).

References:

  1. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. M C Johnson, Time, knowledge and the Nebulae : an introduction to the meanings of time in physics, astronomy, and philosophy, and the relativities of Einstein and of Milne (London, 1945).
  3. W H McCrea, Edward Arthur Milne, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 7 (1950-51), 421-443. 
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