Denis Weaire's article on Townsend's early career at Cambridge in the 1890s (September p28) interested me because I was in the Oxford Electrical Labs during his last years as professor. I remember him as a physically fit man with white hair and in his seventies. While lecturing he would lean forward on the bench, play with his spectacles and, closing one eye, fix his audience with the other and expound gas discharge theory in his broad Irish accent. (To him, Röntgen was “Wrong 'un”!)
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