| 词条 | Robert Allan Smith |
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|name = Robert Allan Smith |honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|CBE|FRS|PRSE}} |office = Principal of Heriot-Watt University |term_start = 1968 |term_end = 1974 |predecessor = Hugh Bryan Nisbet |successor = George Murray Burnett}} Dr Robert Allan Smith CBE FRS PRSE (14 May 1909 – 16 May 1980) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist.[1][2][3] LifeHe was born in Kelso on 14 May 1909, the son of George J T Smith, a tailor, and his wife, Elisabeth Allan. He was educated at Kelso Public School then Kelso High School then studied Mathematics and Physics at Edinburgh University graduating MA in 1930. He then attended Cambridge University as a postgraduate, gaining a further BA in 1932 and a PhD in 1935. In 1938 he began lecturing in Mathematics at Reading University. In the Second World War he worked on radar research at the Air Ministry Research Establishment at Bawdsey near Felixstowe, then was appointed to the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Swanage from 1942, before a final placement at the Royal Radar Establishment at Malvern. He remained at Malvern until 1961. In 1962 he moved to the United States to take the role of Director at the Material Science Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he remained until 1969. He returned to Britain in 1969 as Principal of Heriot-Watt University. In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Hugh Bryan Nisbet, Norman Feather, Sir Harry Melville, Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno. Smith served as President to the Society from 1976 to 1979.[4] He died on 16 May 1980. FamilyIn 1934 he married Doris Marguerite Louise Ward. Publications
References1. ^SMITH, Prof. Robert Allan’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 15 May 2013 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Robert Allan}}{{UK-physicist-stub}}2. ^http://www.nahste.ac.uk/cgi-bin/view_isad.pl?id=GB-0582-HWU-1-19&view=basic 3. ^S.D. Smith, Robert Allan Smith, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol.28, 479-504, 1982. 4. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}} 4 : 1909 births|1980 deaths|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Fellows of the Royal Society |
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