Ernest Howard Griffiths

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Ernest Howard Griffiths (15 June 1851 - 3 March 1932) was a British physicist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and won its Hughes Medal in 1907. On his mothers side he was a descendent of Robert Blake (admiral).

Griffiths was appointed principal of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff in 1901 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 where a college fellowship rotated amongst the principals of Welsh university colleges.[1]

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  1. ^ Griffiths, Ezer; Falconer, Isobel (2004). Griffiths, Ernest Howard (1851–1932). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2008-04-09.


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