[2] As a direct consequence of the marriage Florence was forced to give up her job as Junior Lecturer in physics at Queen's University Belfast.
Emeléus was educated at Hastings Grammar School and at St John's College, Cambridge and was awarded BA in 1922.
Working with Chadwick he built a large Wilson cloud chamber this led to his lifelong interest in gaseous electronics.
[1] Working with Appleton and another PhD student Miles Barnett, Emeléus investigated the maximum count rate of the Geiger counter.
He followed Appleton to King's College London at the beginning of 1925 to take up a role as a demonstrator in physics and completed his thesis on "Methods for detecting single ionizing particles", for which Cambridge awarded him a PhD in1926.