John Stuart Foster

This article is about the father. For his son of the same name, see John S. Foster Jr.
John Stuart Foster
Born(1890-05-30)May 30, 1890[1]
Clarence, Nova Scotia, Canada
DiedSeptember 9, 1964(1964-09-09) (aged 74)
Berkeley, California, United States
Alma materYale University
AwardsHenry Marshall Tory Medal (1946)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsMcGill University
Doctoral advisorLeigh Page
Henry Andrews Bumstead[2][3]
Doctoral studentsMary Laura Chalk Rowles

John Stuart Foster FRS FRSC (May 30, 1890 – September 9, 1964) was a Canadian physicist.[1][2][4]

  1. ^ a b c Bell, R. E. (1966). "John Stuart Foster 1890-1964". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 12: 146–161. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1966.0006.
  2. ^ a b John Stuart Foster at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ [1] Archived June 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "John S. Foster". Physics Today. 18: 155. 1965. doi:10.1063/1.3047133.