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Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet

British physicist
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Born:
Sept. 13, 1831, Greenock, Renfrew, Scot.
Died:
Oct. 22, 1915, Argyll (aged 84)
Subjects Of Study:
gunnery
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Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet (born Sept. 13, 1831, Greenock, Renfrew, Scot.—died Oct. 22, 1915, Argyll) was a Scottish physicist and gunnery expert, considered a founder of the science of ballistics. His pioneering research on fired gunpowder, often in conjunction with the British chemist Frederick Abel, contributed greatly to the progress of gunnery. Noble was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, London, and then entered the Royal Artillery in 1849. During the 1850s, in a study of the relative merits of smoothbore and rifled cannon, he devised a method of comparing their accuracy of fire. He ...(100 of 188 words)

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