Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. (Edwin) Roland Dobbs (born 2 December 1924) is a British physicist, best known for his work in physical acoustics.Professor Dobbs was educated at Ilford County High School, Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet and University College London.After radar research for the Admiralty, 1943-6, he was a research student at University College London, 1946-9 and lecturer in Physics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1949-58.He was Fulbright Scholar, Applied Mathematics, 1958-9 and, Associate Professor of Physics, 1959-60, Brown University, U.S..On returning home, he became AEI Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1960-4, Professor and Head of Department of Physics, University of Lancaster, 1964-73.He then went to Bedford College, University of London as Head of Department of Physics, 1973-85 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.