death_place death_date birth_place citizenship awards nationality fields workplaces birth_date residence article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
princeton , new jersey , united states 16 february 1980 toronto , ontario , canada canada military cross canada physics university of toronto princeton university 27 july 1893 princeton , new jersey allen shenstone
 j. j. thomson c. t. r. wilson ernest rutherford allen goodrich shenstone princeton university university of cambridge
allen shenstone

allen goodrich shenstone , obe -lrb- july 27 , 1893 -- february 16 , 1980 -rrb- was a canadian physicist .
he earned bachelor 's , master 's , and ph.d. degrees from princeton university , as well as a bachelor of arts from the university of cambridge .
after a brief stint as a junior faculty member at the university of toronto , he returned to princeton , where he was a professor in the department of physics 1925 -- 62 .
he chaired the department 1949 -- 60 .
he worked primarily in the field of atomic spectroscopy .
he was awarded the military cross for his service in the royal engineers in world war i and made an officer of the order of the british empire for his work as a scientific officer in world war ii .
