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See also: English physicist, was See also: born at Penkhull, See also: Staffordshire, on the 12th of See also: June 1851, and was educated at See also: Newport (Salop) grammar school
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He was intended for a business career, but being attracted to science he entered University See also: College, See also: London, in 1872, graduating D.Sc. at London University in 1877
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In 1875 he was appointed reader in natural philosophy at See also: Bedford College for See also: Women, and in 1879 he became assistant professor of applied See also: mathematics at University College, London
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Two years later he was called to the chair of physics in University College, Liverpool, where he remained till in 1900 he was chosen first See also: principal of the new See also: Birmingham University
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He was knighted in 1902
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His See also: original See also: work includes investigations on See also: lightning, the seat of the electromotive force in the voltaic cell, the phenomena of electrolysis and the See also: speed of the See also: ion, electromagnetic waves and wireless telegraphy, the motion of the See also: aether nea: ,ne See also: earth, and the application of See also: electricity to the dispersal of See also: fog and smoke
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He presided over the mathematical and See also: physical section of the See also: British Association in 1891, and served as president of the Physical Society in 1899–1900 and of the Society for Psychical Research in 1901–1904
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In addition to numerous scientific See also: memoirs he wrote, among other See also: works, Lightning Conductors and Lightning See also: Guards, Signalling without Wires, See also: Modern Views of Electricity, Electrons and The See also: Ether of Space, together with various books and papers of a See also: meta-physical and theological character
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