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WILLIAM MANDELL THORNTON was born in Liverpool in 1870 and had his schooling at the Liverpool Institute. After eight years of practical work with an engineering firm he entered the University College (now the University) of Liverpool, where he worked under Lodge and Carey and graduated in the honours schools of physics and engineering. He was senior lecturer in engineering in the University of Bristol during 1896–98, lecturer in electrical engineering in Armstrong College (now King's College), Newcastle upon Tyne, from 1898, and was appointed to the chair of electrical engineering when this was inaugurated in 1906. On retiring from the chair in 1937, he was elected professor emeritus of the University of Durham.
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PRESCOTT, J. Prof. W. M. Thornton, O.B.E. Nature 153, 645 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153645a0
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