Frank Allen, FRSC (1874 – 19 November 1965) was a Canadian academic and physicist, specializing in physiological optics.
In 1902 he received his PhD in physics from Cornell University with a thesis on physiological optics.
In his career he published about 60 scientific papers,[2] most of which concerned physiological optics and the physics of the other mammalian senses.
He was also the author of two critically acclaimed books, The Universe, from Crystal Spheres to Relativity (1931)[3] and Responses of the Organism to Stimulation (1971).
He was awarded the Society's Henry Marshall Tory Medal in 1944.