Samuel Devons FRS (30 September 1914 – 6 December 2006) was a British physicist and science historian.
[1][2][3] When he turned 16, he was awarded a scholarship for physics at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He had four daughters (Susan, Judith, Amanda and Cathryn), and had 12 grandchildren (Laura, Marc, Benjamin, Daniel, Jesse, David, Jonathan, Anna, Jacob, Rachel, Jessica and Matthew), and 3 great-grandchildren at the time of his death (Joel, Emily and Julia,) and later Elisheva, Nachman, Nathan, Noah, Stella, Isabella, Sophia, Gavriel, Constantino, Gabriel, Racheli, Cathryn, Hannah, Shana, Sebastian, Lucas, Benyamin, Jordan, Aryeh, Luke, Oscar, and Eliyahu, for a total of 25 great grandchildren as of 2023.
[1][2] During the war, he became a liaison officer for the US and UK, posted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology radiation laboratory.
[1][2] At the end of the war, he served as a British intelligence officer in Germany, assisting in the interrogation of surrendered scientists.