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THE death occurred, on July 24, at Oxhey, Herts, after a brief illness, of Mr. John William E. Heath, at the age of seventy-eight years. A Londoner, he was born in 1856 at 33 Upper Gloucester Place, Dorset Square. He retired from staff duties at the Royal Institution in 1925, after forty-six years service, which began with an engagement as a junior helper in the laboratory there, entering with some previous apprenticeship in assaying. In later times he acted as lecturer s assistant in the historic lecture theatre. Heath had in turn seen eight years service with Prof. Tyndall, thirty-six years with Sir James Dewar, and two years with Sir William Bragg.
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Mr. J. W. E. Heath. Nature 134, 350 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134350b0
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