| Activity | Education:
Rhodes University College; Cambridge
Career:
Interrupted Cambridge Tripos to serve with Royal Engineers in Great War; Lieutenant, commanded 43 Airline Section, IV Army, British Expeditionary Force (1916); Wireless Research Officer, General Headquarters Central Wireless School, Montreuil (1917-1918); acting Captain, Wireless Officer, VI Army Corps (1918); Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Cape Town, South Africa (1922); 1851 Exhibitioner (1928); Carnegie Travelling Fellow (1934); Secretary, Royal Society of South Africa (1929-1934); Chairman, Lightning Research sub-Committee, SA Institution of Electrical Engineers (1932); President, Section A, SA Association for the Advancement of Science (1935); Chairman, SA National Committee on Scientific Radio-Telegraphy (1936); Professor of Physics, Cape Town (1936); Professor of Geophysics and Director, Bernard Price Institute of Geophysics, University of the Witwatersand , South Africa (1937-1954); Major, commanded Special Wireless Section, SA Corps of Signals (1939); Lieutenant Colonel, RDF [Radar] adviser to SA High Commissioner, London (1941); Superintendent, Air Defence Research Development Establishment Operational Research Group, Petersham (1941); Brigadier, Superintendent, Army Operational Research Group (1943); Scientific Adviser, 21st Army Group (1944); Founding President, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa (1945-1950); Deputy Director (1954-1958), Director, Head of Research Group (1958-1961), Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell; Chancellor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown (1951-1962); Pro-Chancellor, University of Southampton (1960-1962); President (Physics and Mathematics), British Association (1962)
Honours:
CBE 1948; Kt 1960 |