About Samuel Walter Johnson Smith
Lived 1871 – 1948 (aged 77). Samuel Walter Johnson Smith was a physicist.
Samuel Walter Johnson Smith FRS (26 January 1871 – 20 August 1948) was an English physicist.
He studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge and became Professor of Physics at the University of Birmingham in 1919, where he succeeded J.H. Poynting.
He was the son of Walter Mackersie Smith and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Who was Samuel Walter Johnson Smith?
English physicist (1871-1948)
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Samuel Walter Johnson Smith was born on 26 January 1871.
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Samuel Walter Johnson Smith died on 20 August 1948.
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Samuel Walter Johnson Smith was a physicist.
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