Person
Allen, William Douglas (1914 - 2008)
- Born
- 27 July 1914
Mussooree, Uttar Pradesh, India - Died
- 7 May 2008
- Occupation
- Physicist and Electrical engineer
Summary
William Allen was on the Manhattan Project, USA 1944-1946 and at the CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory 1946 before becoming research physicist at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, UK 1946-1961. He was Professor of Engineering, University of Reading, UK 1966-1978.
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Chronology
- 1935
- Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of Adelaide
- 1939 - 1944
- Career position - Scientific officer at the Telecommunications Research Establishment, Ministry of Aircraft Production, UK
- 1940
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Oxford
- 1944 - 1945
- Career position - Scientific officer on the Manhattan Project, USA
- 1946
- Career position - Physicist at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radiophysics Laboratory
- 1946 - 1961
- Career position - Research Physicist at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, UK
- 1961 - 1977
- Career position - Physicist at Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, UK
- 1966 - 1978
- Career position - Professor of Engineering, University of Reading, UK
- 1978 - 1979
- Career position - Visiting Professor of Physics, University of West Indies, Barbados
- 1979 - 1981
- Career position - Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Southampton, UK
Published resources
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8007937. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92918744. Details
- 'Allen, William Douglas (1914-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1017557. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Allen, William Douglas', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001585p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 27 September 2011
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