| Authorised form of name | Allen; John Frank (1908 - 2001) |
| Other forms of name | Jack |
| Other forms of surname | Allen |
| Dates | 1908 - 2001 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Date of birth | 06/05/1908 |
| Date of death | 22/04/2001 |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Research field | Superfluidity |
| Low temperature physics |
| Activity | Education:
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 category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1949 |
| Age at election | 40 |
| Relationships | Married (1933) Elfriede Hiebert (marriage dissolved); one adopted son |
| Source | Sources:
Obituaries: Daily Telegraph (03/05/2001); Nature vol 411 (24 May 2001) |
| Code | NA5869 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| PIF/A/30 | Personal information file: John Frank Allen | 1949-2001 |
| EC/1949/01 | Allen, John Frank: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/004533 | Allen, John Frank | April 1978 |
| IM/GA/WS/3446 | Allen, John Frank | nd |
| RR/67/34 | Referee'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 Hull | December 1940 |
| RR/72/178 | Referee'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 Shoenberg | 1949 |
| RR/66/1 | Referee'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/425 | Grant application from the University of St Andrews to the Wolfson Foundation | 1970-1975 |
| RR/73/84 | Referee'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 Garrett | 29 April 1950 |
| RR/73/83 | Referee'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 Garrett | 29 April 1950 |
| RR/73/144 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermal properties of potassium chromic alum between 0.05 and 1°K' by Brebis Bleaney | 28 June 1950 |