English noun: Heaviside | |||
1. | Heaviside (person) English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925) | ||
Synonyms | Oliver Heaviside | ||
Instance hypernym | electrical engineer, physicist | ||