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John Walker Sharpe

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Scottish physicist

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According to Wikipedia, John Walker Sharpe FRSE FIP was a 20th century Scottish physicist specialising in the electron microscope. Life Sharpe was born in Stenhousemuir on 21 October 1916. He was educated at Falkirk High School. He won a bursary to Glasgow University where he studied Mathematics and Natural Philosophy graduating MA in 1939. He then won a Ferguson Scholarship and used this for postgraduate studies at St. John's College, Cambridge. However these studies were interrupted by the Second World War and he instead served as Scientific Officer to the Mine Warfare Department of the Admiralty. This initialled looked at mine design then he focussed upon the demagnetisation of ships.

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