J. A. McClelland

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John A. McClelland, a native of Coleraine, he received his education at Queen's College, Galway. In 1895 he received a fellowship from the Royal University of Ireland and in 1897 took up a research degree at the University of Cambridge.

Among his distinguished posts McClelland served as a Commissioner of National Education, a member of the Senate of the National University of Ireland and, in 1907, secretary to the Royal Irish Academy.

Such was his distinction in his field that in 1909 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. During World War I he served as a member of the Inventions Committee and the Committee for Organisation in Industrial Research. He is best known in Ireland as Professor of Experimental Physics at University College, Dublin.