Education
Akers was educated at Aldenham School and Christ Church, Oxford.
chemist director general manager Industrialist
Akers was educated at Aldenham School and Christ Church, Oxford.
He specialised in physical chemistry. After university, he joined Brunner Mond & Company as a researcher Then in 1924 he joined the Borneo Company, where he served as general manager.
In 1928 he returned to England to join Imperial Chemical Industries, into which Brunner Mond had earlier merged.
In January 1941 he joined the board of the company. During 1941 Akers was recruited by the British war-time government as director of the Tube Alloys project, a clandestine programme aiming to research and develop British atomic weapons capabilities.
In 1946 Akers returned to the Board of Imperial Chemical Industries, where he served as director of research until April 1953, when he retired.
Royal Society.
