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DR. S. DEVONS who has been appointed to the recently instuted University chair of physics tenable at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, graduated at Cambridge in 1935 and started research in the Cavendish Laboratory, under Lord Rutherford, on the radioactivity of radium C"and on the scattering of alpha-particles by light nuclei. In 1939 he began experiments in the Cavendish High Tension Laboratory on nuclear resonance-levels, and had already obtained a number of interesting results on the transmutation of fluorine by protons when the War broke out. In the late summer of 1939 Devons was one of a team of Cavendish physicists under Dee who were attached to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and worked at Exeter on rocket defence problems. In 1942 he was transferred to the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Swan age and made important advances in the development of magnetrons and of very short-wave radar systems. He spent a period at the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later, at the end of the War, worked on atomic problems for a short while under Sir John Cockcroft in the Montreal laboratories of the Canadian National Research Council.
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Physics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology : Dr. S. Devons. Nature 164, 1033 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641033a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1641033a0