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Allen, William Douglas (1914 - )

Physicist and Electrical engineer

Born: 27 July 1914 Mussooree, Uttar Pradesh, India

William Douglas Allen was on the Manhattan Project, USA 1944-46 and at the CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory 1946 before becoming research physicist at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, UK 1946-61. He was Professor of Engineering, University of Reading, UK 1966-78.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1935 Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) completed at the University of Adelaide
1939 - 1944 Scientific officer at the Telecommunications Research Establishment, Ministry of Aircraft Production, UK
1940 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Oxford
1944 - 1945 Scientific officer on the Manhattan Project, USA
1946 Physicist at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radiophysics Laboratory
1946 - 1961 Research Physicist at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, UK
1961 - 1977 Physicist at Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, UK
1966 - 1978 Professor of Engineering at the University of Reading, UK
1978 - 1979 Visiting Professor of Physics at the University of West Indies, Barbados
1979 - 1981 Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southampton, UK

Online Sources

'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 ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 23 May 2006

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