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John Joly FRS is an Irish physicist and professor of geology at the University of Dublin famous for the development of radiotherapy in cancer treatment. He is also known to be the developer of techniques to accurately estimate the age of a geological period, from the radioactive elements present in minerals, to date uranium-thorium.
BornNovember 01, 1857, Bracknagh, County Offaly, Ireland
DiedDecember 08, 1933, Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Fieldsgeology, medicine
Known forradiotherapy, cohesion-tension theory
Notable awardsBoyle Medal of the Royal Dublin Society (1911), Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London (1910), Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London (1923)

About John Joly

Geologist John Joly was born in Ireland on November 1, 1857. He dies at the age of 76, on December 8, 1933.

This late 19th and early 20th-century scientist and geologist is recognized for his innovative radium dating method of studying geological data, as well as his pioneering use of radiation therapy to treat cancer.

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John Joly before becoming famous

John Joly was born in the Zodiac sign Scorpio (The Scorpion), and 1857 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He began teaching in the college's Geology and Mineralogy department after getting an engineering degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

Achievement of John Joly

He devised the Joly Color color photography technology, in addition to his geological studies.

John Joly's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born and raised in the Irish town of Bracknagh. Charles Jasper Joly, his cousin, was a famous nineteenth-century astronomer.

John Joly Collabed with

He worked on a 1913 geologic inquiry with nuclear physicist Physicist Ernest Rutherford that demonstrated the Devonian epoch was at least 400 million years old.

John Joly Income & Net worth

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Latest information about John Joly updated on March 16 2023.