Nicholas Callan

Nicholas Callan
Nicholas Callan
Born
Nicholas Joseph Callan

(1799-12-22)22 December 1799
Died10 January 1864(1864-01-10) (aged 64)
NationalityIrish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materMaynooth College
Sapienza University
Known forInvention of the induction coil
Scientific career
FieldsNatural philosophy
InstitutionsMaynooth College

Nicholas Joseph Callan (22 December 1799 – 10 January 1864) was an Irish Catholic priest and physicist. He was professor of natural philosophy at Maynooth College in County Kildare from 1834, and is best known for his work on the induction coil.[1]

  1. ^ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. p. 55. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.

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