Category:James David Forbes

**James David Forbes**
	Scottish physicist and glaciologist
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Date of birth	20 April 1809; Edinburgh
Date of death	31 December 1868; Clifton
Place of burial	Dean Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Educated at	University of Edinburgh;
Doctoral student	Balfour Stewart;
Occupation	physicist; glaciologist; geologist; inventor; seismologist; university teacher; mountaineer; writer;
Employer	University of Edinburgh;
Member of	Royal Society; Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; Royal Society of Edinburgh; Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities;
Native language	English;
Father	Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet;
Mother	Williamina Stuart;
Child	George Forbes; Edmund Batten Forbes;
Spouse	Alicia Wauchope (1843–);
Award received	Royal Medal (1843); Rumford Medal (1838); Bakerian Lecture (1846, 1842); Keith Medal (1863); Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh;
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English: James David Forbes (20 April 1809 – 31 December 1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology.