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Dr Charles Bernard Childs FRSE (1895-1956) was a British physicist and mathematician. He was founder and Chairman of the Scottish Community Drama Association. He was also Chairman of the British Universities Film Council.〔 http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Childs.html〕 ==Life== He was born in Wandsworth in London on 23 June 1895, the son of Emily G and Charles Alfred Childs, a commercial clerk, both originally from Kingston, Surrey. In 1911, records show Childs studied at The College, Hadham Road, Bishop's Stortford. He graduated from Birmingham University in 1920 with a B.Sc and remained at the university for a while after in order to start research for a doctorate in Natural Philosophy. This was awarded in 1922 for his thesis entitled, "''The thermomagnetic properties of carbon steels at temperatures round the Curie point''". Afterwards, he obtained a post lecturing at Edinburgh University in 1922, where he was appointed assistant lecturer in Natural Philosophy.〔 http://www.scottishhighlanderphotoarchive.co.uk/imageDetail.aspx?ID=9487〕 In 1924, he was promoted to lecturer. Shortly after arriving at Edinburgh, he joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in March 1923. In 1951, he was appointed as a senior lecturer, a role in which he filled until his death five years later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Childs.html )〕 In the Second World War he worked under J.A. Ratcliffe on ionospheric research at Cambridge University.〔 http://www.scottishhighlanderphotoarchive.co.uk/imageDetail.aspx?ID=9487〕 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 5 March 1956, his main proposers being Norman Feather, Robert Schlapp, James Paton and Thomas R Bolam..〔 https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He grew ill very shortly afterwards and was moved to an Edinburgh nursing home. He died in Edinburgh on 4 July 1956. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Bernard Childs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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