Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton 1864 - 1938

occupation:
Crystallographer,
Mountaineer
Nationality:
English; British
born in:
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Trained, taught and researched at, what is today, Imperial College, London. Developed a high precision interferometer using a wavelength of light standard, which in modified form was used to determine the length of the Imperial Yard in 1931 (see 1965-133).