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Name
  
Ernest Griffiths

Awards
  
Hughes Medal

Notable awards
  
Hughes Medal

Fields
  
Physics

Died
  
March 3, 1932



Books
  
The Thermal Measurement of Energy: Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Hall, Leeds

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 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 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.

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Ernest Howard Griffiths Wikipedia