Charles Coulson - St. Andrews and Oxford Before King's

St. Andrews and Oxford Before King's

In 1939, Coulson was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at University College, Dundee. Administratively, this was still part of the University of St. Andrews. Coulson was a conscientious objector during World War II. He carried a very heavy work load teaching Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. E. T. Copson was Head of Department, on the main St. Andrews campus. Coulson collaborated with C. E. Duncanson at University College, London, brought (George) Stanley Rushbrooke from Cambridge and acted technically as his Ph.D. supervisor, and wrote the first edition of Waves

In 1945, Coulson became a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, attached to University College and, concurrently, held a Fellowship awarded by Imperial Chemical Industries. Coulson's students at Oxford included:

• H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, later a professor at Cambridge, then Edinburgh.
• John Maddox, who went with Coulson to King's College, London, turned to publishing and was knighted.
• Roy McWeeny, later, a professor at Sheffield and then Pisa.
• William E. (Bill) Moffitt, later on the Chemistry faculty at Harvard.