Walter Eric Spear (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Eric Spear FRSE Royal Society of London (20 January 1921 - 21 February 2008) was a German physicist noted for his pioneering work to help develop large area electronics and thin film displays. He was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish father and a Lutheran mother; by the time he finished his school examinations in 1938 life for Jews and people associated with Jews was becoming difficult, and the family moved to London. Wanting to pursue a scientific career Spear attended evening classes for the University of London entrance examination, which he passed before the family were interred on the Isle of Man as suspected Axis sympathisers. They were released, and Spear joined the Royal Pioneer Corps in 1940, later moving to the Royal Artillery where he became a Bombardier before being demobilized in 1946.