Awards & Winners

John Sealy Townsend

Date of Birth 07-June-1868
Place of Birth Galway
(Connaught Engineering, Republic of Ireland, County Galway)
Nationality Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Profession Physicist, Scientist
John Sealy Edward Townsend, FRS was a mathematical physicist who conducted various studies concerning the electrical conduction of gases and directly measured the electrical charge. He was a Wykeham Professor of physics at Oxford University. The phenomenon of the electron avalanche was discovered by him, and is known as the Townsend discharge.

Awards by John Sealy Townsend

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1914


Hughes Medal
(For his researches on electric induction in gases.)