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== Family == In 1887, he married Caroline Loveday. Edgar Schuster (1897–1969), the first Galton Fellow of Eugenics at University College London, was his nephew.
== Honours and awards == Schuster was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 18 November 1873, President of the Society 1892–94 and Secretary 1885–88 Schuster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1879, and knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours. Other honours include doctorates from the universities of Calcutta (1908), Geneva (1909), St Andrews (1911), and Oxford (1917) and the award of the Royal, Rumford and Copley medals of the Royal Society (1893, 1926 and 1931); LLD, Calcutta, 1876; Schuster served as secretary of the Royal Society and was elected vice-president (1919–20) and foreign secretary (1920–24). He also served as secretary of the International Research Council (1919–28) and on the management committees for the Meteorological Office (1905–32) and National Physical Laboratory (1899–1902, 1920–25). He was knighted by King George V in 1920. The University of Manchester's Schuster Laboratory, home to the School of Physics and Astronomy, is named after him.
== Gallery ==
== Publications == Schuster, Arthur (January 1905). "Radiation Through a Foggy Atmosphere". The Astrophysical Journal. 21: 1. Bibcode:1905ApJ....21....1S. doi:10.1086/141186. ISSN 0004-637X. The Progress of Physics (1910) Four lectures delivered to the University of Calcutta during March 1908, which give cautious provisional approval of Albert Einstein's Special Relativity and Max Planck's initial ideas about Quanta. An introduction to the theory of optics (1904) There are two subsequent editions to this book, and Schuster is the author. Edition two was published in 1909, and edition three appears to have two publication dates of 1924 and 1928.
== See also == Blackett effect Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy Electron Electron rest mass Representative layer theory Sharp series Space weather
== References ==
== Further reading == Beginning in 1871, Schuster contributed many articles to the Royal Society journals. These articles are available online at JSTOR and at Gallica. Arthur Schuster Biographical Fragments London; Macmillan (1932). – An attractive collection of reminiscences about Schuster's education and his expeditions with recollections of the scientists he knew. The Physical Laboratories of the University of Manchester – Professor Arthur Schuster: Biographical and Bibliographical Notes. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1906. pp. 39–60. The Physical Laboratories of the University of Manchester.
== External links ==
Works by or about Arthur Schuster at the Internet Archive Arthur Schuster Papers at John Rylands Library, Manchester. Arthur Schuster, "On Lunar and Solar Periodicities of Earthquakes ", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 61 (1897), pp. 455–465 – Schuster's first paper on the use of the technique he later called the periodogram Arthur Schuster, "On the Periodicities of Sunspots", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Vol. 206. (1906), pp. 69–100. – Schuster's later paper on sunspots Schuster's Royal Society citation signed by Maxwell, Joule, and others Obituary Notices : Fellows:- Schuster, Sir Arthur, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 95, p.326 There is a photograph of Schuster at the Science and Society Picture Library and many more (as well as the X-ray photographs he took) at Wellcome Images. The story of Schuster and the medical use of X-rays is told at Sir Arthur Schuster A pioneer in the use of X-Rays The position of Schuster at the Cavendish is described in Cavendish Laboratory: the First Ten Years