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Poynting, J. H. (John Henry), 1852-1914 (5)

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Epithet: FRS; Professor of Physics, Birmingham John Henry Poynting (1852-1914), physicist; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge; fellow of Trinity, 1878; first Mason Chair of Physics at the Mason Science College, Birmingham (later University of Birmingham), 1880-1914; fellow of the Royal Society, 1888. While at Mason College he carried out in 1880, an experiment known as 'measuring the gravitational constant'; what he was actually doing was weighing the earth for...

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