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THE death occurred on Nov. 22, in hospital at Pasadena, California, of Sydney Royston Pike. Mr. Pike was born in 1903, and showed a marked bent towards astronomy from early years. He entered Balliol from Bedford School in 1920 with a scholarship awarded for distinction in that subject. Graduating with a first class in physics in 1924, and following this up by a year's research in Oxford, he was appointed assistant lecturer in physics in the University of Leeds in 1925, and soon showed his originality by a series of papers on astro-physical subjects. During the present year, having been awarded a research fellowship by the International Education Board, and granted a year's leave of absence by the University, he proceeded to Mt. Wilson in September, and had scarcely begun work when symptoms of meningitis, following a severe chill, necessitated his removal to hospital.
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Mr. S. R. Pike. Nature 122, 895 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122895b0
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