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He was born in Manchester and attended Manchester Grammar School prior to studying Electrical Engineering at Manchester College of Technology. After graduating he gained a job with General Electric Company at first Heywood then Wembley
From 1945 until 1951 he was employed as a theoretical physicist with Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, being seconded to Bristol university for the final 4 years, lecturing under Nevill Francis Mott and Herbert Fröhlich. From 1951 onwards he lectured in Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1958.
He died at home, 11 Montrose Terrace, Milngavie near Glasgow on 30 December 1996.
