Life
Lionel Robert Wilberforce was born as son of Edward Wilberforce (1834-1914) in Munich Bavaria. He was a great-grandson of William Wilberforce. He was educated in England and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1884. He worked with J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and was appointed lecturer in 1900. In the same year he became professor of physics at University College, Liverpool (later University of Liverpool). He retired from this position in 1935.
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