Ernest Howard Griffiths
Portrait by Gabriel Thompson
Born15 June 1851
Died3 March 1932 (1932-03-04) (aged 80)
AwardsHughes Medal (1907)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics

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.

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "A Community and its University", Dai Smith and Meic Stephens (Eds.), University of Wales Press 2005, p. 39.
  3. ^ 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.


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