Louis Vessot King FRSC FRS (1886–1956) was a Canadian academic and physicist.
[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1915.
King's major research and publishing interests lay in fog alarm research, applications of electromagnetism, heat convection, and radiation.
He developed the gyromagnetic electron theory, invented the hot-wire anemometer and worked on methods of submarine detection in World War I.
[2]King corresponded with Ernest Rutherford, Napier Shaw, Étienne Biéler, and H. T.