Background
He was the grandson of Edward P. Allis, founder of the E.P. Allis Company, which became Allis-Chalmers.
He was the grandson of Edward P. Allis, founder of the E.P. Allis Company, which became Allis-Chalmers.
Allis majored in school and received his South.B. in 1923 and South.M. in 1924 from the (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He was granted his Docteur ès science (Doctor of Science) in physics, in 1925, from the University of Nancy, France. From 1925 to 1929, he was a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. lieutenant was there that he met Philip M. Morse.
Morse, at the suggestion of Karl T. Compton, made arrangements for postdoctoral studies and research with Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in 1930 and at the University of Cambridge in the spring and summer of 1931.
Allis went with Morse to Munich and Cambridge.
Upon his return from Europe, Allis was an instructor in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1931 to 1934. He joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s physics department faculty in 1934 and was appointed full professor in 1950, a position he held until he became professor emeritus in 1967. During World World War II he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory conducting research on magnetron theory.
He then joined the United States Army where he served in the Liaison Office of the Naval Defense Research Committee.
He also participated in Operation Alsos. Allis was one of co-founders of the American Physical Society’s Gaseous Electronics Conference, for which he served as chairman from 1949 to 1962.
On leave from Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years, 1962–1964, he served as assistant secretary-general for scientific affairs for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Allis directed Project Ashby, which was to determine the feasibility of building a nuclear fusion engine.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.