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David Brewster was born in Jedburgh, an obscure country town in the midst of the Scottish lowlands, on December 11, 1781.
Brewster was admitted to the Royal Society of London, and was later awarded the Rumford gold and silver medal for his theory on the polarization of light.
Brewster's Angle is useful in all kinds of practical applications, from adjusting radio signals to building microscopes capable of examining objects on a molecular scale.
To Brewster is due the merit of suggesting the use of lenses for the purpose of uniting the dissimilar pictures; and accordingly the lenticular stereo-scope may fairly be said to be his invention.
Brewster's own discoveries, important though they were, were not his only, perhaps not even his chief, service to science.
Brewster's relations as editor brought him into frequent communication with the most eminent scientific men, and he was naturally among the first to recognize the benefit that would accrue from regular intercourse among workers in the field of science.
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