- Samuel Tolansky
Samuel Tolansky (
17 November 1907 -4 March 1973 ) was Professor of Physics at Royal Holloway College (University of London ), 1947-1973 and an expert onspectroscopy . He was a principal investigator to theNASA Lunar Project.His parents were
Lithuania n-bornJew s."Education:" Rutherford College and King's College,
Newcastle upon Tyne ;Imperial College London ."Work:" University of Manchester, 1934-47, then
Royal Holloway College .He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Astronomical Society , 1947, and of theRoyal Society , 1952.He was awarded the C. V. Boys Prize for contributions to optics by the London Physical Society, 1948; he was Silver Medallist,
Royal Society of Arts , 1961.
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