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Patrick Blackett

Patrick Maynard Blackett

British physicist (1897–1974).

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Sex or Gender

Male

Member Of

Royal Society
(5/11/1933 - )
Start Time
: 5/11/1933
German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Academy of Sciences of the USSR
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
(1966 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
Start Time
: 1966
Fabian Society
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

Place of Birth

London

Country of Citizenship

United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
( - 4/12/1927)
End Cause
:
Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927
End Time
: 4/12/1927

Date of Birth

11/18/1897

Date of Death

7/13/1974

Instance Of

Human

Place of Death

London

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Award Received

Fellow of the Royal Society
Copley Medal
(1956)
Award Rationale
: In recognition of his outstanding studies of cosmic ray showers and heavy mesons and in the field of palaeomagnetism.
Point in Time
: 1956
Royal Medal
(1940)
Point in Time
: 1940
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1948)
Award Rationale
: for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation
Award Rationale
: för hans utveckling av Wilsonmetoden och hans därmed gjorda upptäckter inom kärnfysiken och rörande den kosmiska strålningen
Point in Time
: 1948
Prize Money
: 159,773 Swedish krona
Royal Society Bakerian Medal
(1939)
Point in Time
: 1939
Guthrie Lecture
(1940)
Point in Time
: 1940
Order of Merit
(1967)
Point in Time
: 1967
Dalton Medal
(1948)
Point in Time
: 1948
Honorary Doctorate From the University of Strasbourg
(1947)
Point in Time
: 1947

Occupation

Politician
Physicist
University Teacher
Nuclear Physicist

Member of Political Party

Labour Party

Employer

University of Manchester
Imperial College London
Birkbeck, University of London
Victoria University of Manchester

Educated At

Magdalene College
King's College
University of Cambridge

Given Name

Patrick

Doctoral Advisor

Ernest Rutherford

Nominated For

Nobel Prize in Physics
(1936)
Point in Time
: 1936
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1939)
Point in Time
: 1939
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1940)
Point in Time
: 1940
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1942)
Point in Time
: 1942
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1944)
Point in Time
: 1944
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1945)
Point in Time
: 1945
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1947)
Point in Time
: 1947
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1948)
Point in Time
: 1948
Nobel Prize in Physics
(1949)
Point in Time
: 1949

Sibling

Marion Milner

Field of Work

Physics

Described by Source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
Section
:Блэкетт Патрик Мейнард Стюарт
Obálky Knih
URL
:bug2: http://wikiba.se/ontology#Url
Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
Page(s)
:35
Pi-Vol-11-Issue-3-1953
Page(s)
:3

Name in Native Language

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett

Position Held

President of the Royal Society
(1965 - 1970)
Replaces
:
Howard Florey
Replaced By
:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Series Ordinal
:52
Start Time
: 1965
End Time
: 1970
Member of the House of Lords
(1/27/1969 - 7/13/1974)
End Cause
:
Death in Office
Start Time
: 1/27/1969
End Time
: 7/13/1974
Langworthy Professor
(1937 - 1953)
Start Time
: 1937
End Time
: 1953

Noble Title

Baron
(1969 - )
Start Time
: 1969

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Child

Giovanna Blackett
Nicolas Blackett

Father

Arthur Stuart Blackett

Mother

Caroline Frances Maynard

Student Of

Ernest Rutherford

Spouse

Costanza Bayon
(1924 - )
Start Time
: 1924

Depicted By

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 1st Baron Blackett
Creator
:
Emmanuel Levy

Family Name

Blackett

Place of Burial

Kensal Green Cemetery

Has Works in the Collection

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Interested In

Physics
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