Person Allibone; Thomas Edward (1903 - 2003); physicist Allibone Thomas Edward physicist 1903 - 2003 British Male Sheffield 11/11/1903 19031111 Holyport, Berkshire 09/09/2003 20030909

Physics Engineering 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 Son of Henry J and Eliza Allibone; married (1931) Dorothy Boulden (d 2001) Lectures: Rutherford Memorial 1963 Fellow 18/03/1948 44 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2008 Vol 54, pp 3-30 The Independent (11 September 2003 and 17 September 2003); The Guardian (15 September 2003); The Times (16 September 2003); The Telegraph (22 October 2003) References: T E Allibone, 'Philately and the Royal Society II' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 107-119 'Freemasons and the Royal Society: Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons'. 2010. Library and Museum of Freemasonry. ©Godfrey Argent Studio International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-7539 11 Nov 1903 - NA4654 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 06/02/2026 RS_NET\louisianef Yes fadc3eba-eb6d-49d5-9221-7c8251f5f151