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Oliver ___, self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

heaviside

(Other definitions for heaviside that I've seen before include "Physicist after who a layer of the ionosphere was named" , "British scientist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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