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Royds, Thomas
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Dates of existence
1884 - 1955
History
Thomas Royds was born April 11, 1884, in Moorside, near Oldham, Lancashire, UK. At Manchester University in 1911, he took his D Sc degree in Physics, awarded for all his research work to date. He worked with Ernest Rutherford during 1917-1919 to identify alpha radiation as the nucleus of the helium atom. Later he was appointed Assistant Director of Kodaikanal Solar Physics Observatory, South India, where he worked partly in collaboration with the director, John Evershed. After the retirement of John Evershed, he was appointed as the Director of Kodaikanal in 1923.