death_date years_active nationality article_title birth_date known_for employer education name occupation alma_mater
1 november 1954 c. 1910 -- 1953 british wallace akers
 9 september 1888 director of the tube alloys project brunner mond borneo company imperial chemical industries aldenham school wallace akers chemist and industrialist christ church , oxford
wallace akers

sir wallace alan akers -lrb- 9 september 1888 -- 1 november 1954 -rrb- was a british chemist and industrialist .
akers was educated at aldenham school and christ church , oxford .
he specialised in physical chemistry .
after university , he joined brunner mond & company as a researcher , then in 1924 he joined the borneo company , where he served as general manager .
in 1928 he returned to england to join imperial chemical industries , into which brunner mond had earlier merged .
in january 1941 he joined the board of the company .
during 1941 akers was recruited by the british war-time government as director of the tube alloys project , a clandestine programme aiming to research and develop british atomic weapons capabilities .
in 1946 akers returned to the board of ici , where he served as director of research until april 1953 , when he retired .
