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Samuel Tolansky | |
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| Born | Samuel Turlausky 17 November 1906 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
| Died | 4 March 1973 (aged 66) |
| Alma mater | Durham University Armstrong College |
| Known for | Optics, Interferometry, testing material from Apollo 11 |
| Awards | C. V. Boys Prize Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Manchester Royal Holloway College University of London |
| Doctoral advisor | William Lawrence Bragg |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Joseph Bradley |
Samuel Tolansky, born Turlausky,[2] FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS[1][3][4] (17 November 1906 – 4 March 1973),[5] was a British physicist. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the Moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program.[6]
- ^ a b Ditchburn, R. W.; Rochester, G. D. (1974). "Samuel Tolansky 1907-1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 429–455. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0019. JSTOR 769649.
- ^ R. W. Ditchburn, rev. Isobel Falconer (2004). "Tolansky, Samuel (1906–1973)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31765. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Royal Holloway College Archive with full list of awards and honours". Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ^ "Science, Optics and You – Optical Microscopy at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory". Retrieved 14 January 2009. [dead link]
- ^ "100 years of Samuel Tolansky, a talk by Moreton Moore, Professor of Physics, at Royal Holloway College, 2007, with photographs and illustrations
of his work" (PDF). Retrieved 14 January 2009. - ^ Bingham, Caroline (1987). The history of the Royal Holloway College 1886–1986. London: Constable. ISBN 978-0-09-468200-9.
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