Samuel Tolansky

Samuel Tolansky
Born
Samuel Turlausky

(1906-11-17)17 November 1906
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Died4 March 1973(1973-03-04) (aged 66)
Alma materDurham University
Armstrong College
Known forOptics, Interferometry, testing material from Apollo 11
AwardsC. V. Boys Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Royal Holloway College
University of London
Doctoral advisorWilliam Lawrence Bragg
Doctoral studentsDaniel 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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.)
  3. ^ "Royal Holloway College Archive with full list of awards and honours". Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Science, Optics and You – Optical Microscopy at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory". Retrieved 14 January 2009. [dead link]
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ Bingham, Caroline (1987). The history of the Royal Holloway College 1886–1986. London: Constable. ISBN 978-0-09-468200-9.