Sir Granville Beynon, C. B. E.. 24 May 1914–11 March 1996

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
L. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
University Education ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Radio Waves ◽  
Free Electrons ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Happy Family

From his appointment as a Scientific Officer at the Radio Division of the National Physical Laboratory in 1938, which marked the start of his active collaboration with Sir Edward Appleton, to his death in 1996, Granville Beynon's chosen field of scientific endeavour was the study of the ionosphere, the atmosphere at heights where the concentration of free electrons is sufficient to influence the propagation of radio waves. Through his establishment of research groups at Swansea and Aberystwyth Colleges of the University of Wales, and his tenure of senior offices in appropriate national and international committees, he had a major influence in this area of science. His involvement in university education included a period as Vice–Principal at Aberystwyth, but his interest in education extended beyond the university sector and this was marked by his service as Chairman of the Schools Council Committee for Wales. For his services to science and education he received several honours at both national and international levels. In spite of the many demands on his time, he enjoyed a very happy family life in which music played a central part.

scholarly journals Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, 1886-1959

1960 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 69-74
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Lines ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Radio Waves ◽  
Thomas Henry Huxley ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
University College London ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Alternating Magnetic Fields

Thomas Lydwell Eckersley was born on 27 December 1886 in London. His mother was a daughter of Thomas Henry Huxley who was at one time President of the Royal Society. From the age of 2 1/2 to 6 Eckersley lived in Mexico where his father, who was a civil engineer, was engaged in building a railway. In his early life Eckersley was interested in engineering and in scientific devices and he had a desire to emulate his father and to build bridges. At the age of 11 he went to Bedales School where he came under the influence of an able teacher of mathematics who laid the foundations of his life-long interest in the subject. He left school at the early age of 15 and went to University College London, to read engineering, but he found he was not really as interested in the practical aspects of the work as he had at one time supposed, and he achieved only a Second Class degree. On leaving the University he went to the National Physical Laboratory where he found himself working under Albert Campbell on the behaviour of iron under the influence of alternating magnetic fields. Through this work he became interested in magnetic detectors for radio waves, and he did a good deal of experimenting with radio apparatus at his own house. His first paper was published, jointly with Campbell, on the effect of Pupin loading coils on waves travelling along transmission lines.

James Dyson, 10 December 1914 - 22 January 1990

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 150-174
Keyword(s):  
Binocular Vision ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Great Satisfaction ◽  
Many Instruments ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Wrong Direction ◽  
The Many

James Dyson always reckoned that he had been a lucky person, actually paid to do just what he wanted to do, work in optics. He recalled that as a very small boy in his cot he had noticed that he could see through the slats of the cot, could see objects behind these slats (because, of course, of binocular vision); had been surprised to see images of passing vehicles - seen on the wall of his bedroom - apparently moving in the wrong direction; this was because a hole in the fan light acted as a pin-hole camera, and even at that age he worked out the reason for the strange movements. His father, a joiner and cabinet maker and artist with a strong flair for invention, had made a telescope for which he ground the mirrors; watching the telescope grow set ‘Jim’ firmly on the track of optical instrumentation, a track that he travelled fast and with distinction. His interest in the telescope led him to astronomy; at an early age he tried to calculate Jupiter’s orbit and thus became interested in mathematics, all his life he was never at a loss to calculate all he needed for the development of the many instruments he invented. In the Research Laboratory of the Associated Electrical Industries (AEI Ltd) he was in great demand, helping scientists in other disciplines to solve their problems by one or other of the instruments he devised, and in moving to the Optics Division of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) he continued in the same vein. He was extremely happy in all his scientific work and gave great satisfaction to his colleagues by the cheerful way he helped them.

scholarly journals John Edward Lennard-Jones, 1894-1954

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 174-184 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Atoms And Molecules ◽  
Lennard Jones ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

John Lennard-Jones was born on 27 October 1894 in Leigh, Lancashire and was educated at Leigh Grammar School, where he specialized in classics. In 1912 he entered Manchester University, changed his subject to mathematics in which he took an honours degree and then an M.Sc. under Professor Lamb, carrying out some research on the theory of sound. In 1915 he joined the Royal Flying Corps, obtained his Wings in 1917 and saw service in France; he also took part in some investigations on aerodynamics with Messrs Boulton and Paul and at the National Physical Laboratory. In 1919 he returned to the University of Manchester as lecturer in mathematics, took the degree of D.Sc. of that university and continued to work on vibrations in gases, becoming more and more interested in the gas-kinetic aspects of the subject as his paper of 1922 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society shows. In 1922, on the advice of Professor Sydney Chapman, he applied for and was elected to a Senior 1851 Exhibition to enable him to work in Cambridge, where he became a research student at Trinity College and was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1924. At Cambridge under the influence of R. H. Fowler he became more and more interested in the forces between atoms and molecules and in the possibility of deducing them from the behaviour of gases.

David William Dye, 1887 - 1932

1932 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Technical College ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Electrical Measurements ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Dr. David William Dye was born at Portsmouth on December 30, 1887, and by his death at Surbiton on February 18th, 1932, at the early age of 44 years, we have lost a brilliant investigator and an acknowledged authority on the subject of electrical precision measurement to which his working life was devoted. The third son of the late Charles Dye, J.P., of Portsmouth, he received his early instruction in that city, first at a private school and later at the Municipal Technical College. As an engineering student he worked at the City and Guilds Technical College and subsequently graduated in the University of London. After a short apprenticeship course with the British ThomsonHouston Company at Rugby he joined the stall of the National Physical Laboratory in 1910, where he at once found tasks which specially appealed to him. Under A. Campbell, who was then in charge of the Electrical Measurements Division, he assisted in the development of methods for the magnetic testing of iron and its alloys in various forms, the construction of standards of inductance and the measurements of currents of radio-frequency.

Of Men and Machines

Colossus ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Randell
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Official Document ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Computers

The first inkling I had of the work done at Bletchley Park during the Second World War on electronic codebreaking machines resulted from my efforts to find out what Alan Turing had done during the war. I had been assembling a set of original documents and papers for reproduction in a book on the origins of digital computers, when a colleague questioned the fact that Turing did not figure in the book. At this stage I knew only of Turing’s pre-war work on what we now term ‘Turing machines’, which was purely theoretical, and of his post-war work at the National Physical Laboratory, which did not lead to a working computer in the pre-1950 period on which I was concentrating (see Chapter 9). I responded to the implied challenge and gradually tracked down various brief published allusions to wartime work by Turing and others at Bletchley Park (in particular an article by Jack Good), which were then assembled into a draft article. This draft persuaded various people, especially Donald Michie and Jack Good—both of whom worked with Turing at Bletchley Park—to provide additional, although very guarded, information. I decided to try to get the British wartime work on electronic computers declassified. I wrote directly to the Prime Minister at the time, Mr Edward Heath. The reply I received, signed by the Prime Minister himself, although it politely refused my request, nevertheless constituted for several years what I think was the only unclassified official document admitting that there had been a wartime electronic computer project in Britain. The result of this investigation was my ‘On Alan Turing and the Origins of Digital Computers’, which I presented at Michie’s annual machine intelligence workshop at Edinburgh in October 1972. The proceedings of the workshop were due to be published by the University of Edinburgh Press, and after I had given my presentation I overheard two people connected with the University Press voicing concern over whether they dare include it in the book. The conversation ended with them agreeing that it would be all right to go ahead since, if there were any repercussions, it would be the head of the University Press, namely Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who would be held responsible.

scholarly journals Ezer Griffiths, 1888-1962

1962 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Intermediate School ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
The University

Ezer Griffiths was born on 28 November 1888 at Aberdare in Glamorgan. His father, Abraham Lincoln Griffiths, was a colliery mechanic, and he and his wife Ann had nine children, three daughters and six sons of whom Ezer was the eldest son. There was evidently high ability in the family, since in addition to his own distinguished career two of his brothers have also gained good academic positions, and have published books, and another became a rector of a parish. Ezer himself attributed his success in life to the good fortune that there was an excellent Intermediate School at Aberdare, since otherwise he would have gone directly from the elementary school into coal-mining. As it was, he went as a student to University College, Cardiff, and studied physics there. He got First Class Honours, and was awarded a Research Scholarship, and later a Fellowship of the University of Wales. Still later, he proceeded to the degree of D.Sc. in that University. To give his later career briefly, he researched at Cardiff until 1915 and he was then appointed to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. There he remained for the rest of his life. In 1926 he was elected into the Royal Society, and in 1950 he was awarded the O.B.E. He retired from the N.P.L. in 1953.

scholarly journals Alan Turing and Oxford

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

Did Alan Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), the celebrated mathematician, codebreaker, and pioneer computer scientist, ever visit Oxford? He is well-known for his connections with the University of Cambridge, Bletchley Park, the National Physical Laboratory, and the University of Manchester, but there is no known written archival record of him ever visiting Oxford, despite it being the location of the University of Oxford, traditionally a rival of Cambridge. However, surely he must have done so.

Hindrance to the Integration of e-learning Adoption in Nigerian Universities

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Abasiama G. Akpan ◽  
Chris Eriye Tralagba
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
University Education ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
University System ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Nigerian University ◽  
The University

Electronic learning or online learning is a part of recent education which is dramatically used in universities all over the world. As well as the use and integration of e-learning is at the crucial stage in all developing countries. It is the most significant part of education that enhances and improves the educational system. This paper is to examine the hindrances that influence e-learning in Nigerian university system. In order to have an inclusive research, a case study research was performed in Evangel University, Akaeze, southeast of Nigeria. The paper demonstrates similar hindrances on country side. This research is a blend of questionnaires and interviews, the questionnaires was distributed to lecturers and an interview was conducted with management and information technology unit. Research had shown the use of e-learning in university education which has influenced effectively and efficiently the education system and that the University education in Nigeria is at the crucial stage of e-learning. Hence, some of the hindrances are avoiding unbeaten integration of e-learning. The aim of this research is to unravel the barriers that impede the integration of e-learning in universities in Nigeria. Nevertheless, e-learning has modified the teaching and learning approach but integration is faced with many challenges in Nigerian University.

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