IOP Groups

Samuel Devons FRS 1955

born September 30, 1914 in Bangor, N Wales died December 6, 2006

Obituaries published in: The Times February 9, 2007~

He had a distinguished career in Britain and the United States. He worked on heavy nuclei, muons, atoms, X-rays and nuclear electric charges. He enjoyed recreating historic physics experiments, from Cavendish's measurements of electric charges in the 1770s, through Weber and Kohlrausch's 1858 experiments on electrostatics and electrodynamics charges to the later work of Franklin, Faraday and Volta. After retiring in 1985 he continued to be active. In 2004 he organised a physics conference on the work of Benjamin Franklin. In 2005 he visited London to be honoured for his 50 years as an FRS.

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