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Arthur Edwin Boycott FRS (6 April 1877, Hereford — 12 May 1938, Ewen) was a British pathologist and naturalist. While studying blood sedimentation he discovered that when test tubes are slightly tilted, sedimentation takes place at a much higher rate. This "Boycott effect", named after him, is involved in the phenomenon where bubbles in stout beer sink even though they are lighter than the beer.

On 8 December 2016, it was reported that a book that Boycott borrowed from Hereford Cathedral School sometime between 1886 and 1894 was returned to the school by his granddaughter Alice Gillett.

References

1. Oldham, Charles. "A. E. Boycott, 1877-1938". Journal of Conchology. 21: 58–65. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
2. Martin, C. J. (1 January 1939). "Arthur Edwin Boycott. 1877-1938". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (7): 560–571. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1939.0017. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
3. Diver, Capt C (1939). "Obituary of Professor A. E. Boycott, F.R.S". Nautilus. 52: 135–138. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
4. Boycott, A. E. (1920). "Sedimentation of blood corpuscles" (PDF). Nature. 104 (2621): 532. doi:10.1038/104532b0. S2CID 4248321.
5. Lee, W.T.; Kaar, S.G.; O'Brien, S.B.G. (2018). "Sinking Bubbles in Stout Beers". American Journal of Physics. 84 (4): 250–256. doi:10.1119/1.5021361. hdl:10344/7193. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
6. "Overdue library book returned to school 120 years late". BBC News. 8 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.

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