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

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, Edward Maitland Wright, and Vero Wynne-Edwards. 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 People educated at Bristol Grammar School {{UK-physicist-stub