Biography
Robert Guk all his life suffered from weak health, but this did not prevent him from famous as a talented naturalist and make an important contribution to science.Childhood and youth
Robert Guk was born 18 (28) July 1635 in Freshwoter, United Kingdom. He was the youngest of the four children of the priest of the Anglican Church of John Dunga. The father hoped that the Son would continue his work, but the boy was painful and weak. He had to translate to home learning.
The future scientist since childhood was interested in mechanics and painting. In the young years, he mastered the mastery of the watchmaker and studied painting in Peter Leli, which was reflected in the subsequent works of Robert. After the death of his father, the boy became a student of the Westminster school, which demonstrated the ability to physics and chemistry.
When the study ended, the young man entered the Church Cherch College at the University of Oxford. During this period, he began his friends with Chemist Thomas Willis and a physicist Robert Boylel, which was assisted in research. It was he who became the inventor of the air pump, which was required for Naturophilosophy.
Personal life
About the personal life of the scientist knows little. He was never married, but diary records of men make it possible to conclude that he had a novel with a niece and several housekeepers. Also in the biography of the inventor noted that one of the girls gave birth to a daughter, but he did not recognize himself as her father.The science
The first discovery of Robert is the law on elasticity, which states that the degree of changes in the elastic body is proportional to the strength of impact on it. Subsequently, the phenomenon received the name of the scientist. He also contributed to the opening of the law of Boyl, his assistance was recognized as a physicist in publications.
The thicker's studies helped to join the London Royal Community, where he was soon appointed by a curator of experiments. His work was to carry out experiments, in the course of which a man made important discoveries in the field of physics and medicine. The scientist has formed the law of world community and described the principles of gravity.
An important contribution to biology is the improvement of a microscope, due to which the cell discovery has become possible. GUK first introduced and described the term in the process of studying the structure of plants. In his book "Micrography", it leads to the structure of carrot cells, dill and eases. In the same place, he formulated his own color color theory.
Robert was engaged in improving the hourly mechanism. He first put forward the assumption that the conical pendulum can be used to regulate the clock, and also adapted the spiral spring with the same purpose. But for the right to be called the inventor, the inventor has repeatedly engaged in a dispute with a Christian Guigens.
Among the achievements of a scientist in astronomy is the improvement of the telescope. This allowed physics at the same time with Giovanni Cassini to make the opening about the speed of rotation of Mars and Jupiter around its axes on the basis of monitoring their movement. To inventions, men rank an optical telegraph and a steam engine prototype. But science is not the only thing that Robert is famous.
When a fire happened in London, the GUK participated in the restoration of the city as an assistant Christopher Rena. He designed the building of the Greenwich Observatory and the Villena Church, created a new method of manufacturing the dome for the Cathedral of St. Paul. When recreating the English capital, a street planning scheme was used, drawn by scientists.
In parallel with research, Robert was engaged in the career of the teacher. He lectured on mechanics, and soon after receiving a master's degree in physics and joining the Royal Community, took the post of professor at the University of London.
Death
The inventor died in London on March 3, 1703, the cause of death was the consequences of his pain. In memory of the bitter, its work remained and inventions. Portraits of men were not preserved, only at the beginning of the 21st century were made sketches based on the descriptions of his contemporaries.Memory
- 1935 - The International Astronomical Union assigned the name of Robert Dunga Kratera on the visible side of the Moon.
- 1971 - 3514 GUK - asteroid named after a scientist
- 2009 - Opened Robert Dungal Memorial in Oxford University