Thomas Alty FRSE FIP FRSC LLD (1899–1982) was a Scottish physicist and university administrator who became Chancellor of Rhodes University in South Africa.
In 1925 aged only 25 he was made a Professor of Physics at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
[2] In 1935 he returned to Britain as Professor of Applied Physics at Glasgow University.
[3] In 1948 he left Britain again to become a Master at Rhodes University in South Africa in 1951 becoming both Principal and Vice Chancellor.
[4] Glasgow University gave him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1953.