Career
He was Quain Professor of Physics at University College, London from 1928 to 1950, and then Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution for three years, until opposition to his attempts to reform the RI led to a vote of no confidence in him by members of the RI, following which he resigned.
Andrade was also was a broadcaster, on BBC radio's Brains Trust.
- The Structure of the Atom (1927)
- Engines (1928)
- The Mechanism of Nature (1930)
- Simple Science with Julian Huxley
- More Simple Science (1935) with Julian Huxley
- An Approach to Modern Physics (1956)
- Sir Isaac Newton (1954)
- A Brief HIstory of the Royal Society (1960)
- Physics for the Modern World (1962)
- Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom (1964)
He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air."
His papers are held by the University of Leicester
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