Frederick Thomas Trouton: The Man, the Rule, and the Ratio | Semantic Scholar
@article{Wisniak2001FrederickTT,
title={Frederick Thomas Trouton: The Man, the Rule, and the Ratio},
author={Jaime Wisniak},
journal={The Chemical Educator},
year={2001},
volume={6},
pages={55-61},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:97272981}
}Trouton was a multifaceted theoretician and experimentalist who left his name in several fields. Here, his many contributions to science are described and analyzed with particular emphasis on Trouton’s rule and its further development, his contributions to rheology (Trouton’s ratio), and the famous Trouton—Noble experiment, which is related to the absolute movement of the Earth through the æether.Chemists and chemical engineers are familiar with Trouton through the rule that carries his name…