Edward Taylor Jones

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LL.D. (1872–1961) was a British physicist. He was Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University from 1925 to 1943.

Life

He was born in

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in north Wales on 24 December 1872. He studied Science at the

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and did further postgraduate of the University of Berlin. From 1899 until 1925 he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at his alma mater, the University of North Wales, and then moved to the University of Glasgow for the remainder of his career. The main focus of his work was electromagnetism, atomic physics and quantum theory. In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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and

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. He resigned in 1945. From 1937 to 1940 he was President of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. He received an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1944.

References

1872 births 1961 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Glasgow British physicists 19th-century Welsh people 20th-century Welsh people 19th-century British physicists 20th-century British scientists {{Wales-bio-stub