Humphrey Lloyd (physicist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish physicist and academic administrator
Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1800
Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Date of Death: 17-Jan-1881
Profession: engineer, physicist
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Humphrey Lloyd (physicist)
- Rev Prof Humphrey Lloyd DD FRS FRSE MRIA (1800–1881) was an Irish physicist.
- He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (1831-1843) and much later Provost (1867–1881).
- Lloyd is known for experimentally verifying conical refraction, a theoretical prediction made by William Rowan Hamilton about the way light is bent when travelling through a biaxial crystal.
- He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and President of both the British Association and the Royal Irish Academy.
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