Person
Roberts, John Keith (1897 - 1944)
FRS
- Born
- 16 April 1897
Kew, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 26 April 1944
Marylebone, England - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
John 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.
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Chronology
- 1918
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1920
- Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1922 - 1924
- Career position - Physicist at the National Physical Laboratory, UK
- 1923
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK
- 1928 - 1933
- Career position - Physicist in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University
- 1933 - c. 1939
- Career position - Assistant-Director of Research at the colloid science laboratory, University of Cambridge
- c. 1939 - c. 1942
- Career position - Scientific Officer with the Royal Navy
- 1941
- Education - Doctor of Science (ScD) received from the University of Cambridge
- 1942 -
- Award - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 1944 -
- Award - Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge
Published resources
Book Sections
- Home, R. W., 'Roberts, John Keith (1897-1944), Physicist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds, vol. 16 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), p. 103. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160123b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21165953. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/67933585. Details
- 'Roberts, John Keith (1897-1944)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1041079. Details
Resource Sections
- '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
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2018
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