 Important translations included those of texts by Max Born, Léon Brillouin, Louis de Broglie, Peter Debye, Richard Gans, Robert Pohl and Erwin Schrödinger.She also translated Else Wegener and Fritz Loewe's chronicle of Alfred Wegener’s fourth expedition to Greenland, undertaken in 1930–31.Deans joined the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Nutrition which was part of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, in 1945.