Edgar Buckingham (1867–1940) was educated at Harvard and Leipzig, and worked at the (US) National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST) 1905--1937. His fields of expertise included soil physics, gas properties, acoustics, fluid mechanics, and blackbody radiation. In particular, he combined capillary theory and an energy potential in soil physics theory, and was the first to expound the dependence of soil hydraulic conductivity on capillary potential. This dependence later came to be known as relative permeability in petroleum engineering. He is the originator of the Buckingham Pi theorem in the field of dimensional analysis. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (or NIST) formerly known as The National Bureau of Standards is a non regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration. ... Soil physics deals with the physics of soil systems. ... Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. ... Fluid mechanics is the subdiscipline of continuum mechanics that studies fluids, that is, liquids and gases. ... As the temperature decreases, the peak of the black body radiation curve moves to lower intensities and longer wavelengths. ... Capillaries are the smallest of a bodys blood vessels, measuring 5-10 μm. ... The Buckingham Ï€ theorem is a key theorem in dimensional analysis. ...
Edgar Degas's famous depictions of 19th-century nightlife offer snarling women, sharp-toothed men, vacant-eyed boozers and pig-nosed lechers; a man of his time, the artist considered the human face to be a topography of built-in ethical constructions.
Indeed, Matthew Buckingham's current exhibition takes the birth of physiognomy as the point from which to explore cultural conventions alongside their often insidious underpinnings.
Buckingham reminds us that Enlightenment-era assumptions about the relationship between appearance and character are still prevalent.
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