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WE regret to announce the death of Mr. John Arthur Tomkins. He was born in 1874, and received his early education in London. From the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a firm of scientific instrument makers, with whom he was connected for many years. Between 1892 and 1898, he attended Birkbeck College and the Royal College of Science, of which he became an associate. At this point he entered the teaching profession at West Ham Technical College, as a lecturer in mathematics and physics, and finally joined the staff of the Bradford Technical College in 1903. There he remained until his retirement in 1939. At Bradford, where he became in fact, if not in recognized status, the head of both the Physics and Applied Optics Departments, his long service has left a lasting memorial.
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ANDREWS, J. Mr. J. A. Tomkins. Nature 147, 201 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147201b0
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