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Date of Birth
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07-June-1868
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Place of Birth
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Galway
(Connaught Engineering, Republic of Ireland, County Galway)
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Nationality
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Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
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Profession
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Physicist, Scientist
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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.
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