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Ernest Howard Griffiths
Ernest Howard Griffiths (15 June 1851 – 3 March 1932) was a British physicist born in Brecon, Wales. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895[1] and won its Hughes Medal in 1907. On his maternal side he was a descendant of the 17th-century admiral Robert Blake.
Ernest Howard Griffiths | |
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Portrait by Gabriel Thompson | |
| Born | 15 June 1851 |
| Died | 3 March 1932 (aged 80) |
| Awards | Hughes Medal (1907) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
Griffiths was appointed principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff in 1901[2] and given a professorship in experimental philosophy. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford in 1905, 1909, 1913, and 1917, as part of a system whereby a college fellowship rotated amongst the principals of Welsh university colleges.[3]
References edit
- ^ d., W. C. D. (1932). "Ernest Howard Griffiths. 1851–1932". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 15–18. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1932.0005.
- ^ "A Community and its University", Dai Smith and Meic Stephens (Eds.), University of Wales Press 2005, p. 39.
- ^ Griffiths, Ezer; Falconer, Isobel (2004). "Griffiths, Ernest Howard (1851–1932)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 April 2008.