Harry Devonald Griffith
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Harry Devonald Griffith FRSE (3 April 1898 – 11 April 1964) was a British physicist and author.
Life
He was born in Clifton, Bristol, to John Devonald Griffith and his wife Alice. He was christened on 3 April 1898.{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT9G-CHH|title=FamilySearch.org|website=FamilySearch}} He was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He then studied at Cambridge University graduating MA.
He taught Medical Physics at Aberdeen University from 1923 to 1964. He lived at 21 Gladstone Place in Aberdeen.
In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Geddes, Charles Strachan, Edward Maitland Wright, and Vero Wynne-Edwards.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=13 August 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}
He died on 11 April 1964.
Publications
- An Introduction to the Theory and Use of the Microscope (1928) with Charles Robertshaw Marshall
Family
In 1933 he married Jessie M. Jack.
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Category:20th-century British physicists
Category:Scientists from Bristol
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Category:British textbook writers
Category:People educated at Bristol Grammar School
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