Edmund Clifton Stoner F.R.S.

Edmund Clifton Stoner, FRS ( 1899 - 1968 )

Location IOP plaque: the Physics Building of the University of Leeds (now known as the Stoner Building)

Unveiled: 18 March 1996 by Edmund Stoner's widow

In 1939 Edmund Stoner was appointed as the first Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leeds. In 1951 he was given the post of Cavendish Professor of Physics, the chair accepted by Bragg in 1908. His research included the structure of atoms, "white dwarfs" in the far reaches of outer space and the theory of ferromagnetic materials.

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