Background
Andrade was a Sephardi Jew and is a descendant Moses da Costa Andrade (not Moses da Costa as is sometimes stated). Moses da Costa Andrade is Edward Neville's 2nd great grandfather, and was a feather merchant in London's East End.
Edward Neville studied for a doctorate at the University of Heidelberg and then had a brief but productive spell of research with Ernest Rutherford at Manchester in 1914. They carried out experiments to determine the wavelengths of gamma-rays of radium. He joined the Royal Artillery during the First World War, and then became Professor of Physics at the Ordnance College in Woolwich in 1920.
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