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Authorised form of nameAllen; John Frank (1908 - 2001)
Other forms of nameJack
Other forms of surnameAllen
Dates1908 - 2001
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date of birth06/05/1908
Date of death22/04/2001
OccupationPhysicist
Research fieldSuperfluidity
Low temperature physics
ActivityEducation:
University of Manitoba; Toronto University. PhD (1933)
Career:
Designed and built the first cryostat whilst at Toronto University (now in the museum, Royal Institution, London); staff, Californian Institute of Technology (1933-1935); went to Cambridge (1935-1947); worked on developing on-board oxygen generators for bombers, and on a variable time fuse for anti-aircraft shells (World War 2); Professor of Natural Philosophy, St Andrews University (1947-1978); Dean of Faculty of Science, St Andrews University (twice); responsible for the creation of a separate Faculty of Science at Dundee; helped to plan a new science complex, St Andrews (opened 1966); Chairman, Very Low Temperature Commission, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (1966-1969); member, Britsit National Committee for Physics; member, St Andrews music club; commissioned by the Royal Society to design a memorial to Nevil Maskelyne's measuring of Newton's universal gravitational constant "G", unveiled at Braes of Foss, near Loch Rannoch (1983)
Memberships:
Physical Society (1945); FRSE; American Physical Society (1948)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1949
Age at election40
RelationshipsMarried (1933) Elfriede Hiebert (marriage dissolved); one adopted son
SourcesSources:
Obituaries: Daily Telegraph (03/05/2001); Nature vol 411 (24 May 2001)
Royal Society codeNA5869
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
PIF/A/30Personal information file: John Frank Allen1949-2001
EC/1949/01Allen, John Frank: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/004533Allen, John FrankApril 1978
IM/GA/WS/3446Allen, John Franknd
RR/67/34Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on two papers 'The determination of the vapour-pressure curve of liquid helium below 1.6° K using a magnetic thermometer' and 'The effective susceptibility of a paramagnetic powder' by Brebis Bleaney and R A HullDecember 1940
RR/72/178Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Penetration of magnetic field into superconductors. II. Measurements by the Casimir method' by E Laurmann and D Shoenberg1949
RR/66/1Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'The properties of flow of liquid He ll' by John Frank Allen and A D Misener[June 1939]
WF/425Grant application from the University of St Andrews to the Wolfson Foundation1970-1975
RR/73/84Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The nuclear specific heat in paramagnetic cupric salts at temperatures below one degree absolute. II. The nuclear specific heat' by C G B Garrett29 April 1950
RR/73/83Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The nuclear specific heat in paramagnetic cupric salts at temperatures below one degree absolute. I. Thermodynamic measurements made from a study of the field-dependence of the adiabatic susceptibility' by C G B Garrett29 April 1950
RR/73/144Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermal properties of potassium chromic alum between 0.05 and 1'K' by Brebis Bleaney28 June 1950
RR/77/234Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'An experimental and theoretical study of the relation between magnetic field and current in a superconductor' Alfred Brian Pippard12 November 1952
RR/77/264Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Superflow of helium II through compressed powder' by B S Chandrasekhar and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn12 January 1953
RR/77/266Letter from John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Superflow of helium II through compressed powder' by B S Chandrasekhar and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn, to D C Martin13 February 1953
RR/79/34Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermodynamic properties and melting of solid helium' by J S Dugdale and Franz Eugen Simon3 March 1953
RR/79/23Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of metals in high magnetic fields at low temperatures' by Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn and H M Rosenburg8 February 1953
RR/79/83Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermoelectricity at low temperatures. I. The 'ideal' metals; Na, K, Cu' by David Keith Chalmers McDonald and W B Pearson5 May 1953
RR/79/142Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Ultrasonic measurements in liquid helium' by C E Chase28 June 1953
RR/79/168Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of diamond at low temperatures' by R Berman, Franz Eugen Simon and John Michael Ziman18 July 1953
RR/79/189Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal and magnetic properties of potassium chromium alum below 0.1'K' by J M Daniels and Nicholas Kurti27 August 1953
RR/79/205Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermoelectricity at low temperatures. II. The alkali metal group' by David Keith Chalmers Macdonald and W. B. Pearson27 August 1953
RR/79/218Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'A new semi-automatic apparatus for measurement of specific heats and the specific heat of sodium between 55'K and 315'K' by T M Dauphinee, David Keith Chalmers Macdonald and H Preston-Thomas28 August 1953
RR/79/226Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Experiments on nuclear orientation at very low temperatures. I. Establishment of a method of nuclear alinement and its application to 60Co' by Brebis Bleaney, J M Daniels, Michael Anthony Grace, H Halban, Nicholas Kurti, F N H Robinson and Franz Eugen Simon8 September 1953
RR/79/303Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal and magnetic properties of chromium methylamine alum between 0.01 and 1'K' by W E Gardner and Nicholas Kurti18 December 1953
RR/73/188Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thickness of the helium film. Part II' by E J Burge and L C Jackson26 August 1950
RR/73/187Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thickness of the helium film. I' by E J Burge & L C Jackson26 August 1950
RR/73/180Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The viscosity of liquid helium between 2°K and 5°K' by R Bowers & K Mendelssohn1 August 1950
RR/73/181Referee's report by Arthur Philip French, on a paper 'Experiments on the T-D reaction. II. The angular distribution' by D L Allan & M J Poole7 August 1950
RR/75/5Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The solid-fluid equilibrium of helium above 5000 atmospheres' pressure' by F A Holland, J A W Huggill and G O Jones23 January 1951
RR/75/22Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of dielectric solids at low temperatures (Theoretical)' by P G Klemens26 January 1951
RR/75/24Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of dielectric solids at low temperatures (Experimental)' by R Berman10 February 1951
RR/75/127Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Electrical resistivity of gallium single crystals at low temperatures' by Marianne Olsen-Bär and R W Powell20 May 1951
RR/75/121Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The electrical resistivity of gallium and some other anisotropic properties of this metal' by R W Powell20 May 1951
RR/75/150Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal and electrical conductivity of sodium at low temperatures' by R Berman & David Keith Chalmers MacDonald16 June 1951
RR/75/225Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Experiments with oscillating disc systems in liquid helium II' by A C Hollis-Hallett24 August 1951
RR/75/248Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal and electrical conductivity of copper at low temperatures' by R Berman and David Keith Chalmers MacDonald3 October 1951
RR/75/300Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The flow of gases through capillaries' by J A W Huggill27 November 1951
RR/75/342Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Superflow of helium II through narrow slits' by R Bowers and Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn8 January 1952
RR/77/103Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of solid helium' by F J Webb, K R Wilkinson and J Wilks13 June 1952
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