Edward Taylor Jones F.R.S.E. LL.D. (1872–1961) was a British physicist. He was Professor of Natural Philosophy at

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from 1925 to 1943.

Life

He was born in

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in north

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on 24 December 1872. He studied Science at the

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and did further postgraduate of the

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. 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

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. In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

Donald MacAlister Sir Donald MacAlister, 1st Baronet of Tarbet (17 May 1854 – 15 January 1934) was a Scottish physician who was Principal and Vice-Chancellor and, later, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles inte ...

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Thomas Hastie Bryce Prof Thomas Hastie Bryce LLD FRS FSA FRSE (20 October 1862 – 16 May 1946) was a Scottish anatomist, medical author and archaeologist. He was Regius Professor of Anatomy at the University of Glasgow 1909 to 1935 and also Curator of the Hunteri ...

and

Thomas Stewart Patterson Thomas Stewart Patterson FRSE LLD (1872–1949) was a Scottish organic chemist. Early life and education He was born in Greenock, in 1872, but his family came to Edinburgh in his youth and he was then educated at Merchiston Castle School. H ...

. 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 scientists 20th-century Welsh scientists 19th-century British physicists 20th-century British physicists {{Wales-bio-stub