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WITH the retirement in September of Prof. S. R. Milner, F.R.S., from the chair of physics, the University of Sheffield will lose the services of an eminent man of science and of an outstanding personality, who, during the past forty years, has been untiring in his efforts alike for the advancement of science, for his students, and for the University. A York-shireman by birth, Milner spent his early years in Retford, where he attended the King Edward VI School. He then became a science student at University College, Bristol, and graduated from there in 1895. He spent two post-graduate years as an 1851 Royal Exhibition Scholar working under the late Prof. A. P. Chattock, for whom he has always retained warm feelings of admiration and affection, and a third year under Prof. Nernst at the Institut fur physikalische Chemie in the University of Gottingen. During 1898-1900 he was a demonstrator in physics at the University of Manchester, and he recalls with pride that Sir Arthur Eddington was one of his students there. Milner left Manchester to take up a lectureship in physics at Firth College, later the University of Sheffield, under Prof. W. M. Hicks, who was successively principal of the College and the first vice-chancellor of the University, so that much of the work and organization of the department fell to Milner's lot. During the War of 1914-18 he served as assistant radiographer to the Third Northern General Hospital until 1917, when he was appointed acting professor of physics, on Prof. Hicks vacating the chair. Since 1921 he has been professor of physics, and in 1922 he was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society.
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Prof. S. R. Milner, F.R.S. Nature 145, 887–888 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145887c0
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