How to Pronounce Humphrey Lloyd (physicist)
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Apr 16, 1800 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland Died on 17 Jan 1881 (aged 80)
Irish physicist and academic administrator
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About Humphrey Lloyd Physicist
- Rev Prof Humphrey Lloyd DD FRS FRSE MRIA (1800–1881) was an Irish physicist.
- He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (1831-1843) and much later Provost (1867–1881).
- Lloyd is known for experimentally verifying conical refraction, a theoretical prediction made by William Rowan Hamilton about the way light is bent when travelling through a biaxial crystal.
- He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and President of both the British Association and the Royal Irish Academy.
