2 Quotes & Sayings By Edmund Lloyd Fletcher

Edmund Lloyd Fletcher was born in 1836 in Oxford, England. He attended Oxford University, where he eventually attained the bachelor's degree in mathematics. He was appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Canterbury when he was nineteen years old. Fletcher published his first paper when he was twenty-two Read more

The paper was titled "An Investigation Into the Laws of the Expansion of Gases." At age thirty-three he published his first book, An Investigation into the Laws of the Expansion of Gases, in New York City. For his work in physics Fletcher was awarded two medals by the Royal Society for Science and Light. The second medal was awarded for research work in general science.

He became a professor at Oxford in 1878 and stayed at his post until his death on February 28, 1943.