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THE recent retirement of Prof. Frank Horton from the University chair of physics which he has held at the Royal Holloway College (University of London) since 1914 brings to an end an active teaching career lasting more than forty years. That career really falls into two parts, Cambridge and London, though it should be mentioned that he received his earlier training at Birmingham, of which University he holds the degree of M. Sc. At Cambridge, as a lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory in the days of J. J. Thomson, he formed one of that brilliant team of young physicists comparable in their way with those other teams in other spheres during the same epoch, namely, 'Cromer's young men' in Egypt and the Sudan, and 'Milner's young men' in South Africa. An early election to a fellowship of the Royal Society placed a hallmark on the value of his contributions to the field of science in which he specialized.
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Prof. Frank Horton, F. R. S. Nature 159, 122–123 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159122e0
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