[4] He was educated at Marling School, Stroud and gained a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
[4] After university he took on research roles, initially as a student of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson,[5] at the Cavendish Laboratory[3] during which time Samuel Curran worked under him.
During World War II, he initially worked in the Ministry of Aircraft Production and in 1940 moved to the Telecommunications Research Establishment.
His proposers were Thomas Alty, John Walton, Edward Provan Cathcart and Robert Muir.
[6] He was awarded the Society's Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize for 1958-1962 in recognition of his work on nuclear physics.