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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 June 1868
- Died
- 16 February 1957
- Place of birth
- Galway
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Townsend
- Father
- Edward Townsend
- Mother
- Judith Townsend
- Spouse
- Mary Georgiana Lambert
- Field of work
- physicist
- Occupation
- physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Hughes Medal, Knight Bachelor, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Joseph John Thomson
- doctoral student
- Victor Albert Bailey, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Henry Brose
- employer
- University of Oxford
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society
- name in native language
- John Sealy Townsend
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- student of
- Joseph John Thomson
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