Ernest Howard Griffiths

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Ernest Howard Griffiths (born June 15, 1851 in Brecon , Wales , † March 3, 1932 ) was a British physicist . On his mother's side, he was descended from the British Admiral Robert Blake . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895. In 1907 he won the Hughes Medal for his services to exact physical measurements ("for his contributions to exact physical measurement").

Griffiths became the director of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire , Cardiff (today: Cardiff University ) in 1901 . He received a professorship in experimental philosophy. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford in 1905, 1909, 1913 and 1917.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dai Smith, Meic Stpehens (ed.): A community and its University. University of Wales Press 2005, p. 39.
  2. ↑ Ezer Griffiths, Falconer, Isobel: Griffiths, Ernest Howard (1851-1932) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) . Oxford University Press . 2004. Retrieved April 9, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Griffiths, Ernest Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Brecon , Wales
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1932