Mason Science College
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Mason Science College was a university college in Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham. Founded in 1875 by industrialist and philanthropist Sir Josiah Mason,
Sir Josiah Mason, the founder of Mason Science College. Bust by William Bloye, after Francis John Williamson.
One of the last remaining traces of the former Josiah Mason College building in Edmund Street, seen in 1969. Baskerville House is visible through the archway, and the dome of the Hall of Memory rises above the ruins to the left.
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John Henry Poynting
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John Henry Poynting FRS 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 unt
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…of chemistry from 1880 to 1894. In September 1893, Francis William Aston began his university studies at the college, where he was taught physics by John Henry Poynting and chemistry by Frankland and Tilden. In 1881, Charles Lapworth became the first professor of geology at the college. In 1891, physics professor John…
John Henry Poynting
University of Birmingham – Poynting Physics Building – blue plaque
Blue plaque to Poynting erected in Salford by the Institute of Physics
Electricity and magnetism, 1914