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Roberts, John Keith (1897 - 1944)

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Physicist

Born: 16 April 1897 Kew, Victoria, Australia. Died: 26 April 1944 Marylebone, England.

John Keith Roberts was Assistant-Director of Research at the colloid science laboratory, University of Cambridge (1933-1939). Prior to this he had worked at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University and at the National Physical Laboratory where he worked in the heat section, making precise determinations of the thermal properties of metallic crystals.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1918 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1920 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1922 - 1924 Physicist at the National Physical Laboratory, UK
1923 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK
1928 - 1933 Physicist in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University
1933 - c. 1939 Assistant-Director of Research at the colloid science laboratory, University of Cambridge
c. 1939 - c. 1942 Scientific Officer with the Royal Navy
1941 Doctor of Science (ScD) received from the University of Cambridge
1942 - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1944 - Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge

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'Roberts, John Keith', 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/P001794p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 8 August 2006

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