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English physicist
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Honley, Holme Valley, Kirklees, United Kingdom
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61 years
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Fellow of the Royal Society
(1939)
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George William Clarkson Kaye (8 April 1880 – 16 April 1941) was an English physicist. He is best known as one of the authors, together with Thomas Laby, of the authoritative scientific reference work Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants and Some Mathematical Functions, first published in 1911 and better known as Kaye and Laby.

Kaye was born in Honley in West Yorkshire. Kaye attended the University of Cambridge from 1905. His career included working as an assistant to J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory, and work for the Metrology Department of the National Physical Laboratory. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1939.

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