Education
He worked in the Clarendon Laboratory and then went to Göttingen, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1928.
He worked in the Clarendon Laboratory and then went to Göttingen, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1928.
Atkinson went to Manchester Grammar School and received a degree in physics from Oxford in 1922. He taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey from 1929 to 1937, when he became Chief Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. He stopped working in Greenwich in 1964, when he became a professor at Rutgers, retiring in 1979.
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