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Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH, FRS (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.
Patrick Blackett (born November 18, 1897, London, England—died July 13, 1974, London) was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948 for his discoveries in the field of cosmic rays, which he accomplished primarily with cloud-chamber photographs that revealed the way in which a stable atomic nucleus can be disintegrated by bombarding it ...
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948 was awarded to Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation"
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1953 Became head of the Physics Department of Imperial College London. 1974 Jul 13th Died in London at the age of 76. Patrick Blackett (1897-1974) was an accomplished British scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948.
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948. Born: 18 November 1897, London, United Kingdom. Died: 13 July 1974, London, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: Victoria University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
May 11, 2018 · Blackett was one of the most versatile experimental physicists of his generation. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948 for his development in the 1920s and 1930s of new methods for using C. T. R. Wilson ’s cloud chamber and for his discoveries which included pair production of electrons and positrons in cosmic radiation.
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett,, 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.
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