Name Roy Garstang | ||
Roy Henry Garstang (1925–2009) was born in Southport, England in September, 1925, to Percy Brocklehurst and Eunice (Gledhill) Garstang. He attended Cambridge University with a Caius College scholarship, completing three years of course work in two years, ultimately receiving his BA in 1946. Because of the war, he spent 1945-46 as Scientific Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, England and 1946-48 as Scientific Office at the Ministry of Works. Returning to Cambridge he pursued his studies in Mathematics receiving an MA in 1950 and PhD in 1954, under the supervision of D. R. Hartree. In 1983 he received and ScD from Cambridge University in Physics and Chemistry. While pursuing his PhD, Roy Garstang spent 1951-52 at the Yerkes Observatory, working under Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, developing his calculations an atomic structure and transitions probabilities for forbidden transitions, of special interest to astrophysicists.