Ernest Howard Griffiths
Ernest Howard Griffiths |
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Born |
15 June 1851 |
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Died |
3 March 1932 |
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Fields |
Physics |
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Notable awards |
Hughes Medal (1907) |
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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 Robert Blake (admiral).
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 where a college fellowship rotated amongst the principals of Welsh university colleges.[3]
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