Foster, J. S. (John Stuart), 1890-1964

found: OCLC, November 13, 2017:(access points: Foster, John Stuart; Foster, J.S.; Foster, J. Stuart; usage: John Stuart Foster; J. Stuart Foster; J.S. Foster)

found: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, issue 12, viewed online November 13, 2017:pages 146-161 (John Stuart Foster; born in Clarence, Nova Scotia, May 30, 1890; received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1924 and moved at once to McGill University as Assistant Professor of Physics; became Macdonald Professor of Physics at McGill by 1935; became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1929 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1935; from 1941 to 1944, as scientific liaison officer for the National Research Council of Canada, was involved in radar-related work at the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; established the McGill Radiation Laboratory and Cyclotron, which in 1964 was renamed the John Stuart Foster Radiation Laboratory; was McGill's first Rutherford Professor of Physics, 1955-1960; father of physicist John Stuart Foster Jr.; died in Berkeley, California, on September 9, 1964) - http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/12/147.full.pdf