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GLASGOW.—The University Court on Thursday, December 10, appointed to the chair of natural philosophy Dr. Edward Taylor Jones, professor of physics in the University College of North Wales, Bangor. In 1899 he succeeded Prof. Andrew Gray in the latter chair, and now succeeds him in Glasgow also. A distinguished pupil of Prof. Gray at Bangor, he graduated with the highest honours in the University of London. With the aid of an “1851 Exhibition” research scholarship, he proceeded- to the University of Berlin, where he worked under Profs. Kundt, du Bois, Rubens, von Helmholtz, Planck, and Fuchs. His important memoir on “Electromagnetic Stress” procured him his doctorate. Returning to Bangor in 1896 he was appointed lecturer, and afterwards professor of physics. He has also held in succession the administrative posts of Dean and Chairman of the Faculty of Science, representative of the Senate on the Council, member of the University Court of the University of Wales, and Vice-Principal of the College. Prof. Taylor Jones has published some thirty papers on electrical subjects, in particular on electrical oscillations, coupled circuits, the singing electric arc, and the triode valve generator, all having j important bearings on wireless telegraphy and telephony. He is recognised as having placed the theory of the induction-coil on a sure basis, and his book on that subject is the standard treatise. He also cooperated with the Internal Combustion Engine Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. He will take up his duties in Glasgow at the beginning of next term. He is fifty-two years of age.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 116, 920 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116920a0
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