[1][2][3] He is best known as one of the authors, together with Thomas Laby, of the authoritative scientific reference work Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants and Some Mathematical Functions, first published in 1911 and better known as Kaye and Laby.

[4] He was a driving force behind the formation and early years of the ‘International X-ray and Radium Protection Committee’ (IXRPC), the world's first international radiological protection body, created in 1928.

[5] Kaye was born in Honley in West Yorkshire, and[2] attended Huddersfield Technical School.

[6] He was made 2nd lieutenant in the Electrical Engineers (volunteer corps) on 5 December 1903,[7] and lieutenant-colonel in 1908.

[8] Kaye studied at University College, Liverpool and the Royal College of Science, gaining a Bachelor of Science first class degree in experimental physics in 1903.