About William Douglas Allen
Lived 1914 – 2008 (aged 93). William Douglas Allen was a physicist.
William Douglas Allen (27 July 1914 – 7 May 2008) was a physicist and electrical engineer.
Allen was born on 27 July 1914 in Mussooree, British India. He was educated in South Australia at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide, where he received a BSc (Hons) in 1935. In 1937, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship Spreading with uniform acceleration, with K. Grant & R.S. Burdon, Faraday Society, London. Transactions., 33 (1937), 1531–1532. Gravitational radiation experiments at the University of Reading and the Rutherford Laboratory, with C. Christodoulides, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 8 (1975), 1726–33.
Scholarships 1935 The John L. Young Scholarship 1937 Rhodes Scholarship
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