Person Allen; John Frank (1908 - 2001) Allen John Frank Jack Allen 1908 - 2001 British Male Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 06/05/1908 19080506 22/04/2001 20010422

Physicist Superfluidity Low temperature physics 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) Married (1933) Elfriede Hiebert (marriage dissolved); one adopted son Fellow 17/03/1949 40 Sources: Obituaries: Daily Telegraph (03/05/2001); Nature vol 411 (24 May 2001) ©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-7570 6 May 1908 - 22 Apr 2001 NA5869 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes a9162b0b-7422-4e7e-81a4-0709375ecc8b