Stoner, Edmund Clifton, 1899-1968

Physicist and member of the Royal Society. Educated at Cambridge University; worked with Rutherford as a graduate student at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge from 1921 to 1924 when he was appointed Lecturer in Physics at Leeds University. He remained at Leeds for the rest of his life, as Reader in Physics, 1927-1939, Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1939-1951, and Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1951-1963, in succession to R. Whiddington. His research interests were in magnetism and low temperatures.

From the description of Papers and correspondence of Edmund Clifton Stoner, 1909-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306662

Edmund Clifton Stoner was born in East Molesey, Surrey and educated at Bolton Grammar School, 1910-1918, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1918-1921 where he read for the Natural Sciences Tripos specialising in Physics. In 1919 he developed diabetes which entailed a restricted diet and varying periods of hospitalisation before a regular insulin regime became possible in 1927. He worked with Rutherford as a graduate student at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge from 1921 to 1924 when he was appointed Lecturer in Physics at Leeds University. He remained at Leeds for the rest of his life, as Reader in Physics, 1927-1939, Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1939-1951, and Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1951-1963, in succession to Richard Whiddington. In 1928 he accepted a research fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which he held concurrently with his post at Leeds. For most of his life (he married in 1951) Stoner was solely responsible for his ageing mother and this, taken together with his diabetes, restricted much of his activity to Leeds, and he undertook few outside activities. His research interests were in magnetism and low temperatures. He was elected FRS in 1937

From the guide to the Papers and corespondence of Edmund Clifton Stoner, 1899-1968, 1909-1969, (Brotherton Library, University of Leeds)

Edmund Clifton Stoner was born in 1899 and educated at Bolton Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After doing research at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge he was appointed Lecturer in Physics at the University of Leeds in 1924. He was promoted to a Readership in 1927. In 1928 he accepted a research fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which he held concurrently with his post at Leeds. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1937. In 1939 he was appointed to the newly created Chair of Theoretical Physics at Leeds. He became Cavendish Professor of Physics at Leeds in 1951, until his retirement in 1963. He died in 1968.

From the guide to the Additional papers of Edmund Clifton Stoner, 1925-1961, (GB 206 Leeds University Library)