Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS[1] (18 September 1854 – 15 December 1935) was an English physicist.
[2] Glazebrook was born in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of a surgeon.
When defining electrical standards for the unit of resistance, the British Science Association were trying to determine what length a mercury column should be, to express the absolute value of the Ohm.
[2] During the First World War, he chaired the government's Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, located at the NPL, under the presidency of John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh.
From 1920 to 1923 he was Zaharoff Professor of Aviation and Director of the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College, London.