John Sealy Townsend
Physicist, Academic
1868 – 1957
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Who was John Sealy Townsend?
Sir 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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