Ernest Howard Griffiths

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Ernest Howard Griffiths
FRS
Portrait by Gabriel Thompson
Born15 June 1851
Brecon
Died3 March 1932(1932-03-03) (aged 80)
Cambridge
Alma materOwens College
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Sc.D.)
Board member ofBritish Association for the Advancement of Science
AwardsHughes Medal (1907)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsSidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Oxford
Principal of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire
In office
1901–1919
Preceded byJohn Viriamu Jones
Succeeded byA.H. Trow
Vice-chancellor of University of Wales
In office
1915–1917
Preceded byThomas Francis Roberts
Succeeded byHenry Reichel
In office
1909–1911
Preceded byThomas Francis Roberts
Succeeded byHenry Reichel
In office
1903–1905
Preceded byThomas Francis Roberts
Succeeded byHenry Reichel

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[1] and won its Hughes Medal in 1907. On his maternal side he was a descendant of the 17th-century admiral Robert Blake.

Griffiths was appointed principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff in 1901[2] and given a professorship in experimental philosophy. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford in 1905, 1909, 1913, and 1917, as part of a system whereby a college fellowship rotated amongst the principals of Welsh university colleges.[3]

References

  1. ↑ d., W. C. D. (1932). "Ernest Howard Griffiths. 1851–1932". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 15–18. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1932.0005.
  2. ↑ "A Community and its University", Dai Smith and Meic Stephens (Eds.), University of Wales Press 2005, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Griffiths, Ezer; Falconer, Isobel (2004). "Griffiths, Ernest Howard (1851–1932)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 April 2008.