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Joseph Warner Clark

1856–85

Chemist and physicist. Son of Joseph Turner Clark, a Quaker businessman in Southampton. Studied at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1874–5. Studied chemistry and physics at Heidelberg under Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen and Georg Hermann Quincke, 1876–7. Demonstrator in chemistry and physics, Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, 1877–81. Returned to Southampton in 1881. Joined Oliver Lodge in an unofficial capacity at University College, Liverpool, in 1883, becoming a demonstrator and then assistant professor of physics. Returned to Heidelberg on leave of absence due to ill health in 1885, and died there. Author of a number of scientific papers.

Sources

BMD (Birth index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/1322/7/7)

Lodge 1931

Proceedings of the Physical Society of London (1885–6): 10–12.

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Lodge, Oliver. 1931. Past years: an autobiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Facsimile reprint, Cambridge University Press, 2012.]

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