Thomas Alty
Thomas Alty FRSE FIP FRSC LLD (10 September 1899 – 2 May 1982) was a Scottish physicist and university administrator who became Chancellor of Rhodes University in South Africa.
Life
[edit | edit source]He was born in Liverpool on 10 September 1899.[1]
He studied Science at Liverpool University then did postgraduate studies at Cambridge University. In 1924 he began lecturing in Physics at Durham University. In 1925 aged only 25 he was made a Professor of Physics at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. In 1934 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[2]
In 1935 he returned to Britain as Professor of Applied Physics at Glasgow University. In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward Taylor Jones, John Walton, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey and John Graham Kerr. He resigned and was re-elected in 1942. His second proposers were Edward Hindle, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, James Pickering Kendall and James Ritchie.[3]
In 1948 he left Britain again to become a Master at Rhodes University in South Africa in 1951 becoming both Principal and Vice Chancellor.[4] Glasgow University gave him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1953.
He died in Birmingham in England on 2 May 1982.[5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada 1984
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- ^ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada 1987
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