Carl Howard Collie

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(1903 - 1991)
... was succeeded in 1929 by C.H. Collie. Collie had come to the UK during the First World War, his father having owned an antimony factory in Belgium. He went to Warwick School, where he encountered Sydney Watson, whom he was to meet again as a colleague in 1955 as Organist and Music Tutor at Christ Church. Collie entered New College as a Scholar to read Chemistry, and undertook research with Russell in the Christ Church laboratory in 1924. The radioactivity researches of the day were basic and horrifyingly simple in their techniques. "We just used to take 1 kg of uranium..." he would begin. After graduating, Collie devoted himself to physics, with encouragement and good will from Lindemann, leading to an appointment in the Clarendon laboratory. In 1928, he came to Christ Church and became Lee's Reader in Physics until his retirement in 1971. Collie was to lay the foundations of what became nuclear physics at Oxford, ...
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