Herbert Stanley Allen
| Herbert Stanley Allen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
29 December 1873 Bodmin, Cornwall, England |
| Died | 27 April 1954 (aged 80) Balblair, Ross-shire, Scotland |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | English |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor |
J. J. Thomson Harold A. Wilson Charles Glover Barkla |
| Known for | |
| Notable awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1930 Makdougall Brisbane prize, 1924 |
Herbert Stanley Allen FRSE FRS (29 December 1873 – 27 April 1954) was an English physicist noted as a pioneer in early X-ray research, working under J. J. Thomson at the University of London and alongside Nobel laureate Charles Glover Barkla at the University of Edinburgh. A supporter of the Parson magneton, Allen was also an early contributor to the field of quantum mechanics.
Allen was born in Bodmin in Cornwall, the son of Rev Richard Allen, a Wesleyan Methodist Minister. He attended John Wesley's School in Bath, Somerset.
As an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, Allen shared Whewell’s Court with fellow pupil Edmund Whittaker, earning his Mathematics B.A. there in 1896. After working at Cavendish Laboratory, Allen returned to Cambridge in 1898 to conduct research under J. J. Thomson on the motion of spheres through viscous fluids, useful in the determination of the elementary unit of charge. In 1900 he moved to Renfrew, where he researched spectral photography, the Zeeman effect, and radioactivity under Lord Blythwood. He was appointed lecturer in 1905 at King's College London where he obtained a D.Sc. in 1909 for his work on the discharge of electricity through gases. He conducted this work under Harold A. Wilson and contemporary Charles Glover Barkla, whom he followed to the University of Edinburgh in 1919.
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