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Prof William Barron Coutts FRSE (1885–1946) was a Scottish physicist specialising in military science. He was generally referred to simply as Willie Coutts. ==Life== He was born at the family home of Green Croft in Kinghorn, Fife on 26 May 1885, the son of Robert Alexander Coutts, a bank accountant, and his wife, Elizabeth Martin Barron. He attended Kirkcaldy High School until 1903.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coutts biography )〕 Originally accepted to study Latin and Mathematics at Edinburgh University in 1904, after limited success in these fields he transferred to study Natural Philosophy (physics) as part of a broader Science degree, but again with only partial success. However, he graduated MA in Science in 1909. He began teaching at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh thereafter. He was awarded a further BSc (Pure) by his alma mater in 1912. During this period in Edinburgh he lived in a flat at 125 Warrender Park Road.〔Edinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1911-12〕 In 1913 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers being Ralph Allan Sampson, John Brown Clark, Cargill Gilston Knott and James Robert Milne.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=29 June 2006 )〕 In the First World War he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Barron Coutts - WW1 Memorial and Life Story )〕 on 24 November 1915,〔The London Gazette, 27 November 1915〕 serving in Gibraltar in the role of coastal defence.〔Edinburgh University: Roll of Honour: 1914–1919〕 During the war he had begun to specialise in trajectory paths, range-finding and optics and obtained a post as a senior lecturer at the Artillery College within the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich near London. After the war (from 1919) he was awarded a full Professorship in Military Science, a role which he continued until 1946, shortly before he died. In 1926 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, his address then being given as 74 Vanburgh Park, Blackheath, London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1926MNRAS..86..443 Page 443 )〕 He died at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on 16 December 1946. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Barron Coutts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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