1. In 1910, Schonland matriculated at the age of 14 from St Andrew's College as the top pupil in the Cape Province.
10 Facts About Basil Schonland
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Basil Schonland was wounded at Arras, mentioned in despatches and was awarded the OBE.
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In 1922, Basil Schonland returned to South Africa and took up a post at the University of Cape Town as a lecturer and later Professor of Physics.
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In 1923, Basil Schonland married Isabel Craib and had one son and two daughters.
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In 1945, Basil Schonland returned to South Africa at the insistence of General Jan Smuts, the Prime Minister, to establish the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
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In 1954, Basil Schonland became the deputy director and later director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire.
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Basil Schonland was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1960 as a Knight Bachelor for his services to British science.
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Basil Schonland retired to the family home near Winchester, in Hampshire, and died after a long illness on 24 November 1972.
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Basil Schonland was awarded the OBE, 1919; CBE, 1944; and a knighthood, 1960.
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Basil Schonland was awarded the Chree medal and prize in 1943, the Hughes Medal in 1945, the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1950, presented the inaugural Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in 1951 and was invited to give the Wilkins Lecture in 1955.