Physics professor and RAF veteran Raymond Stevenson, of Anstruther, has died. He was 94.
Mr Stevenson, or Steve as he was known to his academic colleagues, was born in Southsea, Hampshire, and went on to excel at school, winning a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford.
He studied physics under Professor Lindemann, who later became Lord Cherwell, scientific adviser to Churchill. In 1939 he graduated with first class honours.
Having joined the RAF at the start of the Second World War, he was appointed to coastal command, then was later posted to Canada to train Commonwealth pilots. He returned to the UK to work for the Air Ministry.
He married Stephanie in 1940 and their first two children, William and Elaine, were born in Canada.
In 1948, he left the RAF to take up a position at Aberdeen University as lecturer in the natural philosophy department.
Two decades later, he explored a new area of science, geophysics, as a professor of physics in Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe. He was forced to cut short his research on the outbreak of war and settled in Anstruther.
He swapped the air for the sea and enjoyed adventures on a sailing boat, which he kept anchored at Ardfern on Loch Craignish.
He is survived by Stephanie, children William, Elizabeth and Angela, five grandsons and three great-grandchildren.