Norman Feather was born in Crimsworth, Yorkshire, 16 November 1904. In 1932 he married Kathleen Grace Burke and they had one son and twin daughters. Feather attended Trinity College, Cambridge and became a Fellow of the college 1929-1933. He was an Associate in Physics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1929-1930. He was a University Demonstrator in Physics at Cambridge University, 1933-1935, a Leverhulme Fellow and Lecturer, at the University of Liverpool, 1935-1936, and Cambridge University Lecturer in Physics, 1936-1945. Feather was then Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh until 1975. Professor Feather died 14 August 1978. Professor Feather's publications include: "An Introduction to Nuclear Physics" (pub. 1936), "Lord Rutherford" (pub. 1940), "Nuclear Stability Rules" (pub. 1952), "An Introduction to the Physics of Mass, Length and Time" (pub. 1959), "An Introduction to the Physics of Vibrations and Waves" (pub. 1961), "Electricity and Matter: an introductory survey" (pub. 1968), "Matter and Motion" (pub. 1970) and numerous papers on radioactivity and nuclear physics.