Robert Schlapp FRSE (18 July 1899 – 31 May 1991) was a 20th-century British physicist and mathematician of German descent.
[2] His father only appears in Post Office Directories around 1910, at which point he is listed as a university lecturer living at 54a George Square.
[5] In the First World War, obviously a potential problem due to his German background, he enlisted under the Derby Scheme and joined the 31st battalion of the Middlesex Regiment in 1917 at the age of 18.
Returning to the University of Edinburgh he began lecturing in Natural Philosophy (Physics) and Applied Mathematics in autumn 1925.
[6] In this role he was assistant to Charles Galton Darwin (who had recently replaced Cargill Gilston Knott).