Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade (December 27, 1887 - June 6, 1971), was an English physicist, writer and poet.

He studied for a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg and then had a brief but productive spell of research with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester in 1914. They worked to show the wave nature of gamma rays, and on X-ray spectra. He then joined the Royal Artillery.

He was Quain Professor of Physics at the University of London from 1928 to 1950, and then Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution for three years.

He also was a broadcaster, on BBC radio's Brains Trust.

• An Approach to Modern Physics (1956)
• Sir Isaac Newton (1954)
• Physics for the Modern World (1962)
• Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom (1964)

1887 births | 1971 deaths | English physicists | English poets | English radio personalities | English non-fiction writers | Fellows of the Royal Society | English Jews | Jewish poets | Jewish scientists | Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg alumni | Academics of the University of London

Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade