Edward Andrade

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS (27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971) was an English physicist, writer, and poet. He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air." He is best known for work (with Ernest Rutherford) that first determined the wavelength of a type of gamma radiation.
Background
Edward Neville Andrade was a Sephardi Jew and was a descendant of Moses da Costa Andrade (not Moses da Costa as is sometimes stated). Moses da Costa Andrade was his 2nd great grandfather, a feather merchant in London's East End.
Edward Neville studied for a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg and then had a brief but productive spell of research with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester in 1914. They carried out experiments to determine the wavelengths of gamma-rays from radium, and were the first to be able to quantitate these, thereby showing that they were shorter...