Arthur Stewart Eve

Who was Arthur Stewart Eve?

Arthur Stewart Eve, CBE, FRS, FRSC was an English physicist who worked in Canada.

Born in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, the son of John Richard and Frederica Eve, Eve was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was an assistant master and bursar at Marlborough College. In 1903, he came to Canada and was appointed a lecturer at McGill University. He was made an assistant professor in 1904, Associate Professor in 1905 and was appointed the Macdonald Professor in 1912. He later was the Director of Physics.

A colleague of Ernest Rutherford, he wrote a work about him Rutherford: being the life and letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O.M. in 1939.

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1910 and of the Royal Society in 1917. He was president of the Royal Society of Canada from 1929 to 1930.

He died in Puttenham, Surrey in 1948.