[6] During Allison's work at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (which became Auburn University), starting in 1930, he developed a method that he believed measured the time dependence of the Faraday effect.
[10] After several years and several attempts to verify the claims of Allison, the method of magneto-optic spectroscopy was found to be unsuitable for the detection of the new elements.
After this last lecturing position, he returned in 1969 to Auburn University and continued his lab work until one month before his death on August 2, 1974.
[13] Earlier in 2019,[14] the Auburn University Board of Trustees had voted to demolish both the Allison Laboratory Building and Parker Hall, the headquarters of the University's mathematics department, in order to clear space for the construction of a two-story ,151,000-square-foot academic space known as the Academic Classroom and Laboratory Complex (ACLC) and a three-story, 48,000-square-foot campus dining hall.
[15] The Allison Laboratory Building was fully demolished by early 2021, while, for currently unknown reasons, construction plans were amended to allow Parker Hall to remain standing.