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JOHN ALEXANDER McCLELLAND was born at Coleraine in 1870. Leaving the High School, he studied in University (then Queen's) College, Galway, and after a distinguished course he obtained a junior fellowship of the Royal University. Proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, he worked under Sir J. J. Thomson, and was one of the brilliant band of investigators who made history in those days in the Cavendish Laboratory, being contemporary with Sir Ernest Rutherford, Prof. Townsend, and others. In succession to the late Prof. Preston he became professor of experimental physics in University College, Dublin, and quickly began his famous researches on secondary radio-activity.
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C., A. PROF. J. A. McCLELLAND, F.R.S. Nature 105, 238 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105238a0
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