Sydney Chapman

The Mathematical Theory of Non-Uniform Gases

Sydney Chapman, T. G. Cowling, David Park · American Journal of Physics · 1962 · 3K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +14

VI. On the law of distribution of molecular velocities, and on the theory of viscosity and thermal conduction, in a non-uniform simple monatomic gas

Sydney Chapman · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character · 1916 · 280 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Physics +17

The preferential formation of high-mass stars in shocked interstellar gas layers

A. P. Whitworth, A. S. Bhattal, Sydney Chapman et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1994 · 277 citations

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +16

The equatorial electrojet as detected from the abnormal electric current distribution above Huancayo, Peru, and elsewhere

Sydney Chapman · Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics · 1951 · 271 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Electromagnetics +7

The ring current, geomagnetic disturbance, and the Van Allen radiation belts

S.‐I. Akasofu, Sydney Chapman · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1961 · 267 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geophysics +13