William_Douglas_Allen
William Douglas Allen
Physicist and electrical engineer
William Douglas Allen (27 July 1914 – 7 May 2008) was a physicist and electrical engineer.
Allen was born on 27 July 1914 in Mussooree, British India. He was educated in South Australia at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide, where he received a BSc (Hons) in 1935.[1] In 1937, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship[2] to New College, Oxford, where he completed a D.Phil. in 1940.