Selwyn Wright visiting Stanford University, June 2014
Born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent in the UK, Selwyn Wright obtained his PhD at the Institute of Sound and Vibration at the University of Southampton in the UK in 1969. He is now retired and currently resides in a small village in Yorkshire, UK.
On retirement Professor Wright was awarded a highly prestigious British government DTI SMART award to develop an electronic acoustic shadow system . Before retirement he held the Brook Hanson Chair of Engineering at the University of Huddersfield in the
UK. Prior to that Professor Wright was a Research Professor at Stanford University in California. At Stanford he was involved in establishing a Research Institute in Acoustics and Aeronautics at NASA Ames Research Center . The Author has also worked as a Scientific Adviser to the French Government ( ONERA ) and Aerospatiale in Paris and Marseilles. He has also directed research projects at the Electric Power Research Institute in California, and while at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. he established a postgraduate program in acoustics at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia.
Visiting JPL, February 2013
However, he was better known by his colleagues as one of the world’s leading authorities in theoretical and applied wave theory, having developed and solved the general wave equation for acoustic sources and observers in motion. In 1980 he realized that Einstein’s claim that EM waves did not require a propagation medium (ether) was non causal, he promised himself that he would investigate further on retirement. Here he turned his focus to electromagnetic theory and confirmed what most respected scientists have long suspected, that field equations in Einstein’s Special Relativity (SR) are based on Maxwell’s propagation medium. Very few people today working in fundamental electromagnetic research have a background and expertise in wave theory required to ask the necessary questions or provide the critical knowledge required to advance pre-Einstein thought as taught by Maxwell, Lorentz and Poincaré more than one hundred years ago.
Visiting the Caltech Einstein Papers Project, January 2011
Professor Selwyn Wright has published over 100 archive publications and holds six patents.