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Dr. J. H. SHAXBY, who died at Cardiff on September 29, was born at Ashford, in Kent, on May 23,1879. After his schooldays at Canterbury, he studied at Aberystwyth and then at the Royal College of Science, London, where he became a demonstrator in physics and where he lost an eye in a laboratory accident. In 1904 he joined the staff of the Physics Department at Cardiff and eventually became director of the Viriamu Jones Physical Research Laboratory. In 1924 he relinquished that post when he was appointed lecturer in special sense physiology in the Physiology Department of the School of Medicine at Cardiff, a position which he held until he retired in 1946, but without severing his connexion with the Department. Among many other activities, he was a member of the Physiology of Hearing Committee of the Medical Research Council and was chairman of a committee of the Physical Society on Defective Colour Vision.
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BROWN, T. Dr. J. H. Shaxby. Nature 162, 806–807 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162806b0
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