Patrick Blackett
1897
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1974
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Magdalene College, King's College, University of Cambridge
occupation: politician, physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, Royal medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, Bakerian Lecture, Guthrie Lecture, Order of Merit, Dalton Medal
position held: President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords
student of: Ernest Rutherford
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948. In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another. He also made a major contribution in World War II advising on military strategy and developing operational research. His views saw an outlet in third world development and in influencing policy in the Labour government of the 1960s. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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