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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2026-03-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001794b.htm person Roberts John Keith FRS AACR2 16 April 1897 26 April 1944 Place of Birth Kew, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Marylebone, England Physicist 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. 1918 1918 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1920 1920 Award - 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship 1920 1920 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne 1922 1924 Career position - Physicist at the National Physical Laboratory, UK 1923 1923 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 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 1941 Education - Doctor of Science (ScD), University of Cambridge 1942 Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS) 1944 Award - Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge 1851 Exhibition Scholarship Awards, Australia (1891 - )

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 'Roberts, John Keith', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Roberts, John Keith Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Roberts, John Keith (1897-1944), physicist Home, R. W. Roberts, John Keith (1897-1944), physicist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2002 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z John Ritchie and Diane Langmore 103 Resource Section: Roberts, John Keith Roberts, John Keith Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham