John Henry Poynting FRS[1] (9 September 1852 – 30 March 1914[2][3]) was an English physicist. He was the first professor of physics at Mason Science College from 1880 to 1900, and then the successor institution, the University of Birmingham until his death.[4]
^"Poynting, John Henry (PNTN872JH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^GRO Register of Births: DEC 1852 8c 391 BARTON – John Henry Poynting, mmn = unknown
^GRO Register of Deaths: MAR 1914 6d 128 KING'S N. – John Henry Poynting, aged 61
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(1880, 5.77 g/cm3). Cavendish's result was first improved upon by JohnHenryPoynting (1891), who published a value of 5.49(3) g⋅cm−3, differing from the...
inflation. Years later scientists such as Richard Carrington in 1865 and JohnHenryPoynting in 1884 tried and failed to find a connection between wheat prices...
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chemist. September 9 – JohnHenryPoynting (died 1914), English physicist, discoverer of the Poynting–Robertson effect and the Poynting vector. September 15...
carrier of electromagnetic energy. Around 1884 JohnHenryPoynting defined the Poynting vector and gave Poynting's theorem, which describe the flow of power...
Walker 1871 Isaac Todhunter 1877 Edward Routh 1883 J. J. Thomson 1893 JohnHenryPoynting 1899 Joseph Larmor and Gilbert Walker 1901 Hector Munro MacDonald...
volcanologist. March 30 – JohnHenryPoynting (born 1852), English physicist, discovered the Poynting–Robertson effect and developed the Poynting vector. April 16...
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to Maxwell's theory were made by George FitzGerald, Joseph John Thomson, JohnHenryPoynting, Hendrik Lorentz, and Joseph Larmor. Regarding the relative...
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receiving a BSc in 1902 and MSc in 1903. His teachers included JohnHenryPoynting and Percy Frankland. He taught for a while at Watford Grammar School...