What is Joseph Swan?
{{Infobox Scientist |name = Joseph Wilson Swan |box_width = |image =Joseph_Wilson_Swan.jpg |image_size =200px |caption =Photograph of Swan, c.1900 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1828|10|31}} | birth_place = [[Bishopwearmouth]], [[Sunderland]], [[England]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|5|27|1828|10|31}} | death_place = [[Warlingham]], [[England]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]] |ethnicity = |field = [[physics]]<br/>[[chemistry]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[incandescent light bulb]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} Sir '''Joseph Wilson Swan''' (31 October 1828–27 May 1914) was an [[England|English]] [[physicist]] and [[chemist]] who was well known because he created the [[incandescent light bulb]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/swan.html |title=Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Timeline - Joseph Swan |publisher=Micro.magnet.fsu.edu |accessdate=2010-08-21}}</ref> about a year before [[Thomas Edison]]. His house was the first in the world to be lit by electric light bulbs. In 1904, Swan was knighted, awarded the [[Royal Society]]'s Hughes Medal, and was made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. He had already received the highest award in France, the [[Légion d'honneur]], when he visited an international exhibition in Paris in 1881. The exhibition included exhibits of his inventions, and the city was lit with electric light, thanks to Swan's invention. == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Swan, Joseph Wilson}} [[Category:1828 births]] [[Category:1914 deaths]] [[Category:English inventors]] [[Category:English physicists]] [[Category:English chemists]] [[Category:People from