Darwin, Charles Galton
Darwin, Charles Galton,
1887–1962, English physicist and administrator. Educated at Cambridge, he worked under Ernest RutherfordRutherford, Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron,1871–1937, British physicist, b. New Zealand. Rutherford left New Zealand in 1895, having earned three degrees from the Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. at Manchester, where he collaborated with H. G. J. MoseleyMoseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys
, 1887–1915, English physicist, grad. Trinity College, Oxford, 1910. He began his research under Ernest Rutherford while serving as lecturer at the Univ. of Manchester and soon devoted himself entirely to research.
..... Click the link for more information. in fundamental work on X-ray diffraction by crystals. Following World War I he became a fellow and lecturer at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he and R. H. Fowler developed new methods of statistical mechanics that later served as a foundation for quantum statistics. Professor at Edinburgh from 1924 to 1936 and master of Christ's College from 1936, he directed the National Physical Laboratory during World War II, leaving the post in 1949. The last 15 years of his life were devoted to the study of the sociological implications of the population explosion, as reflected in his book The Next Million Years (1953).