John Henry Poynting

Professor Joseph Henry Poynting (1852-1914), Physicist of Mason College, Birmingham

1852 Born in Manchester.

Attended Owens College, Manchester, and London University (B.Sc. 1872).

1872 Admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge

1874 Graduated B.A. (3rd Wrangler)

1878-80 Fellow of the college.

1880-14 Professor of Physics at Birmingham University

1888 Admitted to the Royal Society

1899 President of Section A, of the British Association.

1909-11 (sic) President of the Physical Society

1914 Died March 30

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1914 Obituary.

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