 In early 1945 , Massey offered Burhop a position as a lecturer at University College , London , in the Mathematics Department , of which Massey was the departmental head . He had to wait until he was released by the University of Melbourne , and did not reach London until after the war ended in August 1945 . His wife and family , who had stayed in Australia while he was working in the United States , joined him in London some months later . Living and working conditions in London were much worse than in California or Australia . Wartime shortages persisted , and the college had suffered bombing damage , so the Mathematics Department were located in temporary quarters . He was promoted to reader in 1949 . Massey became head of the Physics Department in 1950 , and Burhop moved there too . He became a professor in 1960 , and Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1967 . 
