John Sealy Townsend
Irish-British physicist
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Sir John Sealy Edward Townsend, FRS was an Irish-British mathematical physicist who conducted various studies concerning the electrical conduction of gases and directly measured the electrical charge. He was a Wykeham Professor of physics at... Wikipedia
Born: June 7, 1868, Galway, Ireland
Died: February 16, 1957 (age 88 years), Oxford, United Kingdom
Parents: Judith Townsend and Edward Townsend
Children: Edward Walter Townsend and John Henry Townsend
Award: Hughes Medal (1914)
Partner: Mary Georgiana Lambert (1911–)
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