Henry Edmison Duckworth, OC FRSC (November 1, 1915 – December 18, 2008) was a Canadian physicist and university administrator.
[1] Born in Brandon, Manitoba, and raised in Winnipeg, Duckworth received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesley College in 1935, followed by a Bachelor of Science degree in 1936 and a teaching certificate in 1937 from the University of Manitoba.
[3] During World War II, he was a junior scientist with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals assigned to the National Research Council of Canada.
[5] In 2000, he released his memoirs One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower (ISBN 0887556701).
[1] Duckworth’s name and support also belongs to several annual student scholarships at the University of Winnipeg.