Ezer Griffiths

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, FRS (27 November 1888 – 14 February 1962) was a

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most noted for his work on the insulation properties of metals, heat transference, evaporation and refrigeration.

Education and early life

Griffiths was born in

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in 1888 to a colliery mechanic, and from 1901 to 1906 he was educated at Aberdare Intermediate School.Ezer Griffiths, obe, dsc, frs
Aberdare Boys Grammar School He graduated to

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and studied under

Ernest Howard Griffiths 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 and won its Hughes Medal in 1907. On his maternal side he was a descendant of the 17th- ...

Career

On leaving Cardiff, he gained a post in the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. Griffiths spent his entire career studying the physical theory of heat. His initial works focused on the effects of heat on metal at low temperatures, in conjuncture with his tutor, Ernest Griffiths. His later work on refrigeration would enable the transportation of fruit and meats from Australia and New Zealand to Europe.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Griffiths, Ezer 1888 births 1962 deaths Welsh physicists Fellows of the Royal Society Officers of the Order of the British Empire Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)