Gilbert, William

Gilbert, William and Sullivan, Arthur. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan. Random House, Inc., New York. 1936. 

Gilbert William (1544-1603) English physician and physicist. He was physician to Queen Elizabeth I, and in 1600 published his famous book about m netism, in which he likened the earth to a huge bat magnet. He was the first to use the terms magnetic pole and electricity . 

The earliest information dealing with this phenomenon dates back to 600 B.c. It was found that a piece of amber after it had been rubbed was able to attract small fibers. More recent observations are from the 17th century, when William Gilbert noticed that amber, sulfur, and other dielectrics charged by friction could attract smoke. Similar observations were made by Boyle (1675) and Otto von Guericke (1672). Francis Hauksbee (1709) reported that he had discovered a phenomenon which is now called ionic wind or electric wind. Ionic wind and the glow from the corona discharge was discussed by Isaac Newton (1718). 

The term electric comes from the Greek word for amber and was coined by William Gilbert in his book on magnetism, published in 1600. Gilbert showed that other materials had this same attractive property and made the important obseiwation that it was quite different from the attractive property of magnetism. 

English physician William Gilbert discovers that materials like glass, sulfur, and diamonds behave just like amber. He calls these materials electrics, which means amber in Latin. 

Westcott, William Wynn. Collectanea hermetica introduction by R.A. Gilbert. York Beach (ME) Weiser, 1998. 1 vol (v.p.) ISBN 0-87728-921-2... 

Greene, William B. The blazing star and the Jewish Kabbala foreword by R.A. Gilbert. Ibis. 112p. ISBN 0-89254-086-9... 

Gilbert D. G., Meliska C. J., Williams C. L., Jensen R. A. (1992). Subjective correlates of cigarette-smoking-induced elevations of peripheral betaendorphin and cortisol. Psychopharmacology 106, 275-81. 

Copeland, N.G., Gilbert, D.J., Cho, B.C., Donovan, P.J., Jenkins, N.A., Cosman, D., Anderson, D., Lyman, S.D. and Williams, D.E. (1990) Mast cell growth factor maps near the steel locus on mouse chromosome 10 and is deleted in a number of steel alleles. Cell 63, 175-183. 

Acknowledgements We would like to thank Glyn Williams-Jones, Nathalie Vigouroux, Guillaume Mauri, Eline Mignot, and Carole Gilbert for assistance, guidance and inspiration,... 

Badawy, S.I., Williams, R.C., and Gilbert, D.L., Chemical stability of an ester prodrug of a glycoprotein Ilb/IIIa receptor antagonist in solid dosage forms,. Pharm. Sci., 88, 428,1999. 

Foot RA, Bozhenok L, van den Berg DL, Steffensen S, Ferreira F, Grimaldi M, Gilbert N, Ferreira J, Varga-Weisz PD (2004) The Williams syndrome transcription factor interacts with PCNA to target chromatin remodelling by ISWl to replication foci. Nat Cell Biol 6 1236-1244... 

William Gilbert, Edisson Morgado Jr., and Marco Antonio Santos Abreu... 

Keith F. Eckerman Thomas F. Gesell Ethel S. Gilbert Joel E. Gray Arthur W. Guy Eric J. Hall Naomi H. Harley William R. Hendee David G. Hoel F. Owen Hoffman Donald G. Jacobs A. Everette James. Jr. John R. Johnson BerndKahn Kenneth R. Kase Amy Kronenberg Harold L. Kididel Charles E. Land John B. Little Richard A. Luben Roger O. McClellan Barbara J. McNeil Charles B. Meinhold Fred A. Mettler Charles W, Miller... 

Ashm. 195, fo. 195. Gilbert was Treasurer from 1587—94 inclusive, and he was also present at the interview of Forman William Munk, The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, i (1878), 78. 

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