Patrick Blackett - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1948
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Patrick Blackett

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1948
for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
11/18/1897
place of birth
London
date of death
7/13/1974
place of death
London
Lived
76 years
position held
  • member of the House of Lords
    • start time: 1/27/1969
    • end time: 7/13/1974
  • President of the Royal Society
    • end time: 1970
    • start time: 1965
  • Langworthy Professor
    • end time: 1953
    • start time: 1937
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1966
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/29/1965
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/11/1933
  • Fabian Society
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
doctoral student
  • James Hamilton
  • Keith Runcorn
  • Edward Bullard
  • Bibha Chowdhuri
employer
  • Victoria University of Manchester
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Manchester
  • Birkbeck, University of London
occupation
  • politician
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
educated at
  • University of Cambridge
  • King's College
  • Magdalene College
field of work
  • physics
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