Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (11 April 1898 – 28 October 1982) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.
Biography
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson was born in Rhayader, Wales, on April 11, 1898. He went to Manchester Grammar School and received a degree in physics from Oxford in 1922. He worked in the Clarendon Laboratory and then went to Göttingen, where he received a Ph.D. in physics in 1928. After teaching physics at the Berlin Technische Hochscule for a year, Atkinson was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at Rutgers University.
Honors
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Institute of Navigation.
- Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for work on stellar fusion (1960)
- The asteroid 1827 Atkinson is named after him.