Boris Semeonoff (1910-1998) was a British psychologist with particular expertise in personality assessment.
After the departure of George Seth, he was appointed to the staff of the Department of Psychology at the university and was subsequently awarded a Ph.D. (1936) for a thesis on Weber's Law in relation to the intensity of sound.
[1] From 1933 until his retirement in 1980, Semeonoff worked at the university rising to the position of Reader of Psychology.
During the Second World War, he was involved in the selection of officers for the Special Operations Executive.
[3] His research was largely in the area of personality assessment and selection and he published several books on the subject (Semeonoff, 1958, 1970, 1976).