Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick

Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick (24 May 1903 – 13 May 1981) was a British pioneer of electromagnetism in relation to its effects upon atomic particles. He served as Director of Electrical Engineering for the Royal Canadian Navy and Director of the Electrical Research Division of the Defense Research Board of Canada.

Cullwick was a critic of the Special Theory of Relativity, and an amateur bookbinder of great skill.

Life He was born at 14 Snow Hill in Wolverhampton in 1903, the youngest son of Herbert Ernest Cullwick (1859–1945) and his wife, Edith Ada Ascough. In 1905 his father was Director of Cullwicks Ltd, a company going into liquidation. Ernest attended Wolverhampton Grammar School. He won a place to Downing College, Cambridge graduating BA in 1925 and won a Foundation Scholarship leading to an MA in 1929. He studied as a postgraduate at St Andrews University where he obtained a DSc. He then moved to Canada working as an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia.

In 1937, he was made Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta.

Cullwick was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1946 for his war service.

Cullwick retired in 1973 and moved to Dover, where he died in 1981.

Publications

Fundamentals of Electromagnetism (1939) Electromagnetism and Relativity (1957) The Clock Paradox (1963) Electromagnetic Momentum and Newton’s Third Law

Family

He married Mamie Ruttan Boucher in 1929. They had one son and one daughter.