Roy Brown Strathdee DL TD FRIC FCS FRSE LLD (16 July 1897 – 17 June 1976), affectionately known as Strath, was a Scottish chemist and author, with a strong interest in Robert Louis Stevenson.
[1] His family emigrated to Montreal in Canada in 1908 but left Roy in the care of an aunt in Aberdeen.
He began studying Mathematics at Aberdeen University in 1914 but had to terminate when he was called up to serve in the First World War.
He then did postgraduate studies at Cambridge University under Prof J. E. Humphries and W. H. Mills, gaining his first doctorate (PhD) in 1927.
[2] He returned to Aberdeen as a Lecturer in Chemistry in 1927 also then taking over the role of training officers in the University OTC, as a branch of the Territorial Army.