Physics (2005). He was also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and he held an honorary degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Bath (1978). Personal life In 1953 Edwards married Merriell E.M. Bland, with whom he had three daughters and a son. His relaxations were gardening and chamber music. Edwards died in Cambridge on 7 May 2015. Publications References Further reading External links 1928 births 2015 deaths Welsh physicists People from Swansea People educated at Bishop Gore School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Harvard University alumni Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Cavendish Professors of Physics Members of the French Academy of Sciences Royal Medal winners Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales Presidents of the British Science Association Maxwell Medal and Prize recipients 20th-century British physicists 20th-century Welsh scientists John Humphrey Plummer Professors