Head and shoulders image of Peter A. Forsyth, Professor of Physics.

Bio/Historical Note: Peter Allan Forsyth, MA, PhD, FRSA, FCASI, FIAG, FRSC, was born in 1922 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He ttended the Royal Military College, the University of Saskatchewan and McGill. During World War II he served overseas as an officer in the RCNVR, on loan to the British Fleet Air Arm. After the war, he worked for the Defence Research Board where he became Superintendent of the Radio Physics Lab. He was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and came to the University of Western Ontario as head of the Physics Department. Later, he was Director of the Centre for Radio Science at UWO and Director of the Space Science Co-ordination Office, National Research Council, Ottawa. He participated in the launching of the Canadian Space Science Program and spent more than thirty years involved in international space activities. Forsyth died in 2008 in London, England, at age 87.