Charles Taylor

Charles Alfred Taylor (1922–2002) was a British physicist well known for his work in crystallography and his efforts to promote science to young audiences. Charles Taylor was born in Hull in 1922. He began his degree in Queen Mary's College at the University of London, but the college was subsequently evacuated to Cambridge during the remainder of World War II. He graduated in 1943, and then worked for the Admiralty designing radar countermeasures, work that eventually took him to Harvard University in the USA until the end of the war. He then studied for a PhD at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and was there from 1948 until 1965. He worked as a lecturer and then a reader after completing his PhD. He...