D.Sc. Lond., Hon. D. Sc. Oxon. et Vict. LL.D. St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen Vice-President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers Rumford Medallist of the Royal Society Ex-President of the Physical Society of London Late Professor of Physics in the University College of Liverpool Honorary Member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia; of the Manchester Philosophical Society; of the Batavian Society of Rotterdam; and of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna
Principal of the University of Birmingham
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