:Ezer Griffiths
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}}Ezer Griffiths (27 November 1888 – 14 February 1962) was a Welsh physicist most noted for his work on the insulation properties of metals, heat transference, evaporation and refrigeration.The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) p. 336 {{ISBN|978-0-7083-1953-6}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Griffiths | first1 = E. | title = The Variation with Temperature of the Specific Heat of Sodium in the Solid and the Liquid State; Also a Determination of Its Latent Heat of Fusion | doi = 10.1098/rspa.1914.0024 | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | volume = 89 | issue = 614 | pages = 561–574 | year = 1914 |bibcode = 1914RSPSA..89..561G | doi-access = free }}Methods of Measuring Temperature (1918)Pyrometers (1926)
Education and early life
Griffiths was born in Aberdare in 1888 to a colliery mechanic, and from 1901 to 1906 he was educated at Aberdare Intermediate School.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141111214720/http://www.abgs.org.uk/FormerPupils/ezer/eg.html Ezer Griffiths, obe, dsc, frs] Aberdare Boys Grammar School He graduated to University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and studied under Ernest Howard Griffiths.{{Cite journal | last1 = Griffiths | first1 = E. H. | last2 = Griffiths | first2 = E. | doi = 10.1098/rspa.1914.0086 | title = The Capacity for Heat of Metals at Low Temperatures | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | volume = 90 | issue = 621 | pages = 557 | year = 1914 |bibcode = 1914RSPSA..90..557G | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1432019 | doi-access = free }}
Career
On leaving Cardiff, he gained a post in the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington.
Griffiths spent his entire career studying the physical theory of heat. His initial works focused on the effects of heat on metal at low temperatures, in conjuncture with his tutor, Ernest Griffiths. His later work on refrigeration would enable the transportation of fruit and meats from Australia and New Zealand to Europe.
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