John Samuel Forrest [SEP] educated at
the Department of Mining at Glasgow Technical College (becoming the University of Strathclyde in 1964.)
John Samuel Forrest attended the famous Hamilton Academy school where he won the Dux Medal, Mathematics Medal and the Science Medal, and coming third in the University of Glasgow Bursary Examination of 1925 was awarded the John Clerk (Mile End) Bursary to study Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the university. In 1929 while still an under-graduate Forrest was admitted as a research student in the Science Faculty and awarded the Thomson Experimental Scholarship followed
John Samuel Forrest
John Samuel Forrest FRS (20 August 1907 – 11 November 1992) was a Scottish-born physicist, author and Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde.
Early life and education.
John Samuel Forrest was born at Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 20 August 1907, one of the three children of Samuel Norris Forrest and his wife Elizabeth. Samuel Norris Forrest was a teacher of mathematics at Hamilton Academy and author of text-books on mathematics, trigonometry and calculus. He also lectured in