Background
Charles Taylor was born in Hull in 1922.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Charles Taylor
Edit ProfileEducation
He began his degree at Queen Mary College (a constituent college of the University of London), but the college was subsequently evacuated to Cambridge during World World War World War II He graduated in 1943 and after working for the Admiralty during the war, then worked as a lecturer and then a reader after completing his Doctor of Philosophy.
Career
His first work was for the Admiralty designing radar countermeasures, work that eventually took him to Harvard University in the United States of America until the end of the war. He worked for a long time with Henry Lipson on the development of optical diffraction analogue methods. He was awarded a Doctor of Science in 1960.
In 1965 he moved with his family to Cardiff to take up the position of Chair of Physics at University College Cardiff, where the main interest of the department was X-ray crystallography, in the same field as the work he did with Lipson in Manchester.
He was appointed to the post of Visiting Professor of Experimental Physics at the Royal Institution, a post he held until 1988. He also gave many other lectures to schoolchildren.
In 1990 he lectured to thousands of children in Tokyo as a follow up to his Christmas in London the previous year. In 1971 he lectured to schoolchildren for the Royal Institution Christmas on Exploring Music covering physics and music
