Professor Lewis Elton was born in Frankfurt in 1923 and came to the UK with his family in 1939. He took an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Cambridge University and a Phd in theoretical physics from University College London, and subsequently taught at Kings College London and Battersea College of Technology (now University of Surrey). He has given lectures all over the world. Professor Elton has four children and lives in Surrey with his wife, Mary.
Well, I was slightly old for school certificate, if I was to go on to be--, go to university, it was usual to take school certificate at 15, so I--, and my brother, Geoffrey, of course, was even older, so we both decided we would try for the school certificate in June, which was five months after we had arrived in England and by then, we had absolutely no difficulty anymore.
I mean, the content of the subjects I was quite familiar with and English came so rapidly that by the end of March, when the school gave us, what's called a mock examination, I remember that I passed every subject except English language, and I also remember that the difficulty I had was Latin,
because I knew what the words meant, but only in German, and not in English, and the English which you need to translate 'Caesar's Gallic Wars…', is not the English that you use when you talk to your fellow pupils.
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