Prof Kenneth Jack Standley

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

FIP FPS (c.1920–2002) was a 20th-century Scottish physicist.

Life

In 1941 he was commissioned into the

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during the

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. He completed his studies in Physics at

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graduating MA then gaining a postgraduate doctorate (PhD). He became Professor of Physics at

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in 1965. In 1967 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers for the latter were

George Dawson Preston George Dawson Preston FRSE (8 August 1896 – 22 June 1972) was a 20th century British physicist specialising in crystallography and the structure of alloys. He was one of the first to use x-rays and electron diffraction to study the crystal struc ...

, Arthur Walsh, Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick, and John F. Allen. He served as the Society's vice president from 1973 to 1976. He died on 6 June 2002.

Publications

*''Electron Spin Relaxation Phenomena in Solids'' *''Oxide Magnetic Materials''

References

2002 deaths Scottish physicists Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Dundee Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-physicist-stub