Foster, J. S. (John Stuart), 1890-1964

LC control no.	no2017152711
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Foster, J. S. (John Stuart), 1890-1964 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Foster, John Stuart, 1890-1964 Foster, J. Stuart (John Stuart), 1890-1964
Associated country	Canada
Associated place	Montréal (Québec) United States
Birth date	1890-05-30
Death date	1964-09-09
Place of birth	Clarence (N.S.)
Place of death	Berkeley (Calif.)
Field of activity	Physics
Affiliation	McGill University Yale University National Research Council of Canada Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Profession or occupation	University and college faculty members Physicists
Found in	Foster, J. S. Linear electrical scanner, 1945: title page (J.S. Foster) OCLC, November 13, 2017: (access points: Foster, John Stuart; Foster, J.S.; Foster, J. Stuart; usage: John Stuart Foster; J. Stuart Foster; J.S. Foster) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, issue 12, viewed online November 13, 2017: pages 146-161 (John Stuart Foster; born in Clarence, Nova Scotia, May 30, 1890; received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1924 and moved at once to McGill University as Assistant Professor of Physics; became Macdonald Professor of Physics at McGill by 1935; became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1929 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1935; from 1941 to 1944, as scientific liaison officer for the National Research Council of Canada, was involved in radar-related work at the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; established the McGill Radiation Laboratory and Cyclotron, which in 1964 was renamed the John Stuart Foster Radiation Laboratory; was McGill's first Rutherford Professor of Physics, 1955-1960; father of physicist John Stuart Foster Jr.; died in Berkeley, California, on September 9, 1964) <http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/12/147.full.pdf>
Associated language	eng