Charles William Oatley was born at Badcox above his parent's bakers shop and grew up to be an internationally recognised scientist, whose pioneering work brought important and lasting benefits.
Last Friday a plaque was unveiled by his sons in a ceremony organised by the Frome Society for Local Study and the Frome and District Civic Society.
It all began on Mr Oatley's sixth birthday when his father William gave his son the unusual present of an electric motor – which sparked a lifelong interest.
Mr Oatley was one of a team who developed radar during the Second World War, he revolutionised the teaching of electronics at Cambridge University and will be remembered for the development of the scanning electron microscope.
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