James Dyson (physicist)

For other people named James Dyson, see James Dyson (disambiguation).

James Dyson FRS (10 December 1914 – 22 January 1990) was a British physicist who specialized in optics.

Dyson was the son of a joiner and cabinet maker with a flair for invention.^[1] In October 1939 he was living in Rugby, Warwickshire, and was an instrument transformer design engineer.^[2] After working in the Research Laboratory of Associated Electrical Industries, he joined the Optics Division of the National Physical Laboratory. Dyson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1968.^[1]

References

1. Allibone, T. E. (1991). "James Dyson 10 December 1914 – 22 January 1990". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 37: 150–151. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1991.0008.
2. National Registration Act 1939, 30 Regent Place, Rugby, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 1 October 2021 (subscription required)