Herbert Bristol Dwight (8 September 1885, Geneva, Illinois – 30 June 1975) was an American-Canadian electrical engineer.[1]

Dwight was educated in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, attended Toronto University for two years, and then attended McGill University, graduating there in 1909 with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering. He developed a method for calculating the skin effect resistance ratio of a tubular conductor[1][2] and derived formulas for mutual inductance of coils with parallel axes, repulsion of coils with parallel axes, and self-inductance of long cylindrical coils.[3]

He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Toronto in 1924.[4]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b Leonard, John William; Downs, Winfield Scott; Lewis, M. M. (1922). "Dwight, Herbert Bristol". Who's Who in Engineering: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries 1922–1923. Vol. 1. p. 394.
  2. ^ Dwight, Herbert B. (1918). "Skin effect in tubular and flat conductors". Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 37 (2): 1379–1403. doi:10.1109/T-AIEE.1918.4765575. S2CID 51636838.
  3. ^ Dwight, H. B. (1919). "Some new formulas for reactance coils". Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 38 (2): 1675–1696. doi:10.1109/T-AIEE.1919.4765652. S2CID 51653896.
  4. ^ Dwight, H. B. (1924). "A new formula for use in calculating repulsion of coaxial coils" (PDF). Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, August 11–16, 1924. Vol. 2. pp. 461–464.
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