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Ernest Howard Griffiths
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Portrait by Gabriel Thompson
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| Born | 15 June 1851 |
| Died | 3 March 1932 (aged 80) |
| Awards | Hughes Medal (1907) |
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| Fields | Physics |
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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