| Authorised form of name | Allibone; Thomas Edward (1903 - 2003); physicist |
| Dates | 1903 - 2003 |
| Place of birth | Sheffield |
| Date of birth | 11/11/1903 |
| Place of death | Holyport, Berkshire |
| Date of death | 09/09/2003 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Engineering |
| Activity | 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 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1948 |
| Age at election | 44 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Rutherford Memorial 1963 |
| Relationships | Son of Henry J and Eliza Allibone; married (1931) Dorothy Boulden (d 2001) |
| Source | 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. |
| Code | NA4654 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/18/27 | Brown to T E Allibone | 12 October 1966 |
| GLB/18/26 | Copy of a letter from T E Allibone to Members of the Royal Society Club | 11 October 1966 |
| GLB/25/14 | 'The Club of the Royal College of Physicians, The Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers and their relationship to the Royal Society Club' by T E Allibone | September 1967 |
| IM/GA/WS/3058 | Allibone, Thomas Edward | nd |
| IM/004527 | Allibone, Thomas Edward | circa 1960 |
| PIF/A/33 | Personal information file: Thomas Edward Allibone | 1948-2003 |
| ST/1 | Allibone Stamp Collection | 1990 |
| RR/65/7 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The development of the spark discharge' by Thomas Edward Allibone and J M Meek | February 1938 |
| RR/65/8 | Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The development of the spark discharge II' by Thomas Edward Allibone and J M Meek | September 1938 |
| RR/72/222 | Letter from Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Constitution and mechanism of the selenium rectifier photocell' by J S Preston to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 24 February 1950 |
| RR/72/223 | Letter from Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Constitution and mechanism of the selenium rectifier photocell' by J S Preston to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 31 March 1950 |
| EC/1948/01 | Allibone, Thomas Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/72/224 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Constitution and mechanism of the selenium rectifier photocell' by J S Preston | 1949 |
| RR/41/101 | Referee's report by Arthur John Allmand, on a paper 'The chemical effects of cathode rays. Part I. -The decomposition of ammonia' by G R Gedye and Thomas Edward Allibone | October 1930 |
| RR/73/128 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'A study of high-current toroidal ring discharge' by A A Ware | 1950 |
| RR/75/100 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Brownian fluctuations in galvanometers and galvanometer amplifiers' by R V Jones and C W McCombie | 8 May 1951 |
| RR/73/190 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'The volta effect as a cause of static electrification' by W R Harper | 29 August 1950 |
| RR/75/332 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Electrical breakdown of gases. I' by F Llewellyn Jones and A B Parker | 24 January 1952 |
| RR/77/183 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Field emission of electrons in discharges' by F Llewellyn Jones and E T de la Perrelle | 21 September 1952 |
| RR/77/252 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Photo-ionization and the electrical breakdown gases' by J Dutton, S C Haydon, F Llewellyn Jones and P M Davidson | 11 February 1953 |
| RR/79/111 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'The pilot-streamer in lightning and the long spark' by Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland | 28 January 1953 |
| RR/77/4 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Electrical breakdown of gases II' by J Dutton, S C Haydon and F Llewellyn Jones | 24 January 1952 |
| RR/79/236 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Investigation of a new form of microwave interferometer for determining the velocity of electromagnetic waves' by K D Froome | 29 October 1953 |
| RR/73/129 | Letter from Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'A study of high-current toroidal ring discharge' by A A Ware, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 27 July 1950 |
| RR/79/1 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Surface films and cold emission of electrons' by F Llewellyn Jones and C Grey Morgan | 24 February 1953 |
| RR/77/198 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Theory of the growth of the high frequency electrodeless discharge' by G Francis and A von Engel | 1 January 1963 |
| RR/77/200 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'Measurement of the growth of the high frequency electrodeless discharge' by G Francis and A von Engel | [January 1953] |
| RR/77/197 | Letter from Thomas Edward Allibone to D C Martin, concerning two papers: 'Theory of the growth of the high frequency electrodeless discharge' by G Francis and A von Engel, and 'Measurement of the growth of the high frequency electrodeless discharge' by G Francis and A von Engel | 1 January 1963 |
| RR/79/165 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Allibone, on a paper 'The role of quanta in the electric breakdown of gases' by W L Harries and A von Engel | 29 July 1953 |