Colour vision : a discussion of the leading phenomena and their physical laws

Historical Significance: Dr William Peddie (1851 - 1946), D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.E. occupied the Harris Chair of Physics at University College, Dundee from 1907 to 1942. He was born in the island of Papa Westray, son of the Free Church minister there. He graduated B.Sc. at Edinburgh University in 1888, and in 1892 he was appointed lecturer in Natural Philosophy in Edinburgh University. He succeeded Professor J P Kuenan at Dundee. Dr Peddie was an active worker, both as lecturer and in research, frequently contributing to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which he was a Fellow, and to the proceedings of Edinburgh Mathematical Society. His researches were mainly in the fields of colour vision and molecular magnetism.