| Activity | Education:
Central School, Sheffield; Linley (Metropolitan Vickers) Scholar at Sheffield University, BSc and PhD; PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge - Wollaston Scholarship, working at the Cavendish Laboratory with Sir Ernest Rutherford (1926-1930)
Career:
Metropolitan Vickers Research Scholar, Sheffield University; Head, High Voltage Laboratory, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company (1930-1946); Tube Alloys project, worked, as a member of the British Mission on Atomic Energy, on the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb at Berkeley, California and at Oak Ridge, Tennessee (1944-1946); Director, Research Laboratory, Associated Electrical Industries, Aldermaston, Berkshire (1946-1963); Royal Society Faraday Lecturer (1946, 1956); Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (1959); Chief Scientist, Central Electricity Generating Board (1963-1970); Royal Society Rutherford Memorial Lecturer (1964, 1973); External Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Leeds University (1967-1978); Visiting Professor, City University (1971-2003); Robert Kitchin (Saddlers) Research Professor, City University (1983-2003); Frank Poynton Professor, City University (1984-2003)
Memberships:
FInstP; Honorary Fellow, Institute of Electrical Engineers; Fellow, American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Initiated a Freemason in Sheffield 9 March 1927, passed 8 June 1927 and raised 9 November 1927, University Lodge No 3911 Sheffield
Honours:
CBE 1960 |