Cavendish Laboratory : Portrait of H.W.B. Skinner

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinnner worked in the Cavendish Laboratory from 1922 to 1927. He studied β-ray spectrum with Ellis and then the Zeeman effect with Kapitsa. His main contribution was in soft X-ray absorption and emission in metals. During World War II he was engaged in the development of radar at TRE and on the atomic energy project at Berkeley University, California. After World War II he became a director of the General Physics Division at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell. (H. Jones, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1960)</p>