Roland Dobbs Fulbright Scholar in Applied Mathematics (1958-1959) and Associate Professor of Physics (1959–1960) at Brown University, AEI Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (1960-1964), Professor and Head of Department of Physics, University of Lancaster (1964-1973), Head of Department of Physics at Bedford College, University of London (1973–1985) and Hildred Carlile Professor (1973-90). Following the merger of Bedford and Royal Holloway College, he was Head of Department of Physics, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, 1985-90. On his retirement, he became Emeritus Professor. He held several visiting Professorships at Brown University, Rhode Island. U.S.A, Wayne State University, Michigan, U.S.A., University
Lyman Laboratory of Physics solid metallic hydrogen had been synthesised. Lyman Laboratory of Physics The Lyman Laboratory of Physics (named for the physicist Theodore Lyman) is a facility at Harvard University, located between the Jefferson and Crufts Laboratories near the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It was built in the early 1930s, to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott. Among the staff are Sheldon Lee Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Richard Wilson (physicist), Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus. Here, Ranga Dias (Post-Doctoral Fellow) and Isaac F. Silvera (Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences) claim