Ernest Howard Griffiths, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernest Howard Griffiths

British physicist

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1851

Place of Birth: Brecon, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Mar-1932

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.