Norman Feather (16.02.1904-14.08.1978) was an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1945) and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (its president in 1967 — 70). He was born in Crimsworth. He graduated from the University of Cambridge (1926), where he worked in 1933-45. In 1945-75 he was professor at the University of Edinburgh.
His work was in the field of nuclear physics and the history of physics. He was one of the first to carry out (1932) nuclear reactions involving neutrons. He studied the binding energy of the neutron in nuclei. He wrote a book about E. Rutherford, “Lord Rutherford” (1940).