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Lewis Fry Richardson
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Dr. Lewis Fry Richardson, D.Sc., F.R.S., Principal of Paisley Technical College from 1929 to 1940, died at his home at Kilmun, Argyllshire, on Wednesday,
Born in 1881, he was educated at Bootham School, Durham College of Science, Newcastle, and King's College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1903. For some three years after taking his degree, he was at the National Physical Laboratory, and he then spent a period in commerce, when the use of tungsten as the filament for electric lamps was being developed.
A Quaker of strong convictions, he spent two and a half years with a Friends ambulance unit attached to the French Army during the 1914-18 War and on his return was appointed to the charge of the physics department of the Westminster Training College. It was during his time there that he was elected F.R.S. in 1926.
Dr. Lewis Fry Richardson, D.Sc., F.R.S., Principal of Paisley Technical College from 1929 to 1940, died at his home at Kilmun, Argyllshire, on Wednesday,
Born in 1881, he was educated at Bootham School, Durham College of Science, Newcastle, and King's College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1903. For some three years after taking his degree, he was at the National Physical Laboratory, and he then spent a period in commerce, when the use of tungsten as the filament for electric lamps was being developed.
A Quaker of strong convictions, he spent two and a half years with a Friends ambulance unit attached to the French Army during the 1914-18 War and on his return was appointed to the charge of the physics department of the Westminster Training College. It was during his time there that he was elected F.R.S. in 1926.
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