Harry Devonald Griffith

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(3 April 1898 – 11 April 1964) was a British physicist and author.

Life

He was born in

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, to John Devonald Griffith and his wife Alice. He was christened on 3 April 1898. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He then studied at

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graduating MA. He taught Medical Physics at

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from 1923 to 1964. He lived at 21 Gladstone Place in

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. In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

Alexander Geddes Alexander Geddes (14 September 1737 – 26 February 1802) was a Scottish theologian and scholar. He translated a major part of the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible into English. Translations and commentaries Geddes was born at Rathven, B ...

, Charles Strachan, Edward Maitland Wright, and

Vero Wynne-Edwards Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards, CBE, FRS, FRSE (4 July 1906 – 5 January 1997) was an English zoologist. He was best known for his advocacy of group selection, the theory that natural selection acts at the level of the group. Life He was born ...

. He died on 11 April 1964.

Publications

*''An Introduction to the Theory and Use of the

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'' (1928) with Charles Robertshaw Marshall

Family

In 1933 he married Jessie M. Jack.

References

1898 births 1964 deaths 20th-century British physicists Scientists from Bristol Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Aberdeen British textbook writers {{UK-physicist-stub