Arquivo F974 - Denys Thomas Roberts fonds

Denys Thomas Roberts was born in Bristol, Engalnd in 1915. The University of Bristol granted him a B. Sc. degree in 1931 and, in 1941, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Birmingham. From 1939 to 1943, Mr Roberts was employed as a Research Associate by the University of Birmingham on a university contract with the British Aedmiralty. In 1943, while remaining a Research Associate at University of Birmingham, he worked on another contract from the Directorate of Tube Alloys (Uranium), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. From 1944 to !946, Dr. Roberts was a Temporary Scientific Officer, Aker's Mission to Canada. Most of his time was spent working in the Mass Spectrometer Laboratory at McMaster University, with H.G. Thode. He returned to England in 1946 to work as a research officer in the Medical Council of the National Institute for Medical Research in London where he organized the isotope labortory. In 1947, he came back to Canada to accept an appointment as Professor in the Queen's University Physics Department where he remained for the rest of his life. Denys Thomas Roberts died in Kingston, Ontario, in 1979.