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H. Stanley Allen

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said of him, "Perhaps he does not realize how strongly he has endeared himself to his colleagues and his students by his own personality, his faith and vision…" Allen died 27 April 1954 at the home of his daughter in
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fatigue. He then wrote a series of papers concerned with structure of the atom based on its magnetic and spectral properties. Beginning in 1919, he contributed a series of articles favoring a modified version of the
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H. Stanley Allen, "Some Problems Connected with the Discharge of Electricity in Gases", King's College London (1909).
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in 1909 for his work on the discharge of electricity through gases. He conducted this work under
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was then in its infancy and Allen's contributions were among the earliest to the subject.
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H. Stanley Allen (September 1924). "Faraday's 'Magnetic Lines' as Quanta. Part II".
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Allen's 1913 book, "Photo-electricity", was an early contribution to the study of
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Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J)
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H. Stanley Allen (August 1930). "Magnetism and the Quantum Theory".
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H. Stanley Allen (May 1925). "Quantum Magnetic Tubes in Rotation".
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under Lord Blythwood. He was appointed lecturer in 1905 at
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H. Stanley Allen (1921). "Aether and the Quantum Theory".
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Photo-electricity: the Liberation of Electrons by Light
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Electrons and Waves: An Introduction to Atomic Physics
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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physicist from Cornwall noted as a pioneer in early
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Herbert Stanley Allen
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Bodmin
Cornwall
England
Balblair
Ross-shire
Scotland
United Kingdom
Trinity College, Cambridge
King's College
University of London
X-rays
Photo-electricity
Quantum mechanics
Fellow of the Royal Society
Makdougall Brisbane prize
Physicist
King's College London
University of London
University of Edinburgh
University of St Andrews
Doctoral advisor
J. J. Thomson
Harold A. Wilson
Charles Glover Barkla
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