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Edward Taylor Jones

Edward Taylor Jones

British physicist

Not to be confused with the English clergyman and first-class cricketer Edward Taylor-Jones.

Edward Taylor Jones F.R.S.E. LL.D. (1872–1961) was a British physicist. He was Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University from 1925 to 1943.

Life

He was born in Denbigh in north Wales on 24 December 1872. He studied Science at the University of North Wales and did further postgraduate of the University of Berlin. 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 quantum theory.[1]

In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Donald MacAlister, George Alexander Gibson, Thomas Hastie Bryce and Thomas Stewart Patterson. He resigned in 1945.[2] From 1937 to 1940 he was President of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow.

He received an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1944.

References

  1. [1]
    "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Edward Taylor Jones". universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  2. [2]
    Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2017.


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