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Edward Hutchinson Synge (1 June 1890 – 26 May 1957) was an Irish physicist who published a complete theoretical description of the near-field scanning optical microscope, an instrument used in nanotechnology, several decades before it was experimentally developed.
Edward Hutchinson Synge is a forgotten member of a famous Irish family. He is the brother of John Lighton Synge, the renowned mathematican, and nephew of the playwright John Millington Synge, whose works include ThePlayboy of the Western World. Edward (known as Hutchie) was born on June 1 st, 1890. He arrived in Trinity College Dublin as a ...
Edward Hutchinson Synge is given credit for conceiving and developing the idea for an imaging instrument that would image by exciting and collecting diffraction in the near field. His original idea, proposed in 1928, was based upon the usage of intense nearly planar light from an arc under pressure behind a thin, opaque metal film with a small ...
Edward Hutchinson Synge was a tragic genius. Hiding himself away in Dublin, in a manner that would today be categorised as Asperger Syndrome, he pursued private study in physics, despite little formal education in the subject.
When Edward Hutchinson Synge was born on 1 June 1890, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, his father, Edward Synge, was 30 and his mother, Ellen Frances Nellie Price, was 29. He lived in Kilmainham, County Meath, Ireland in 1901 and Kingstown, County Dublin, Ireland in 1911.
If the present book on Edward Hutchinson ‘Hutchie’ Synge—nephew of the playwright John Milligton Synge and elder brother of John Lighton Synge, who edited the collected works by Sir William Rowan Hamilton following the urging initiative from Hutchie—the authors/editors will be satisfied.
Hutchie : the life and works of Edward Hutchinson Synge (1890-1957) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Publication date. 2012. Topics. Synge, Edward Hutchinson, 1890-1957, Physicists -- Ireland -- Biography, Near-field microscopy. Publisher. Pöllauberg, Austria : Living Edition. Collection.
