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Tony Arrott (1928-2024)

Tony Arrott was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.  He earned his PhD in Physics in 1954 at Carnegie Tech, and joined SFU Physics as a Professor in 1968. Since 1954 Arrott has published over 200 journal articles and several reviews of his wide range of studies.  In 1970, Arrott discovered point singularities in liquid crystals.  He designed the Thermal Neutron Facility (TNF) at the TRIUMF cyclotron located at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, commissioned in 1978.

Arrott was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1969 and of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983.  In 1985 he received a fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science to work with muons at the Meson Science Laboratory, University of Tokyo, and the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK), Japan.   He received the Gold Medal for Physical Sciences from the Science Council of British Columbia in 1982 and the Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics from the Canadian Association of Physicists in 1986. In 1988-1989 he served as president of the Canadian organization, Science for Peace.