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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.
Professor Blackett was appointed Head of the Physics Department of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, in 1953 and retired in July, 1963. He is continuing at the Imperial College as Professor of Physics and Pro-Rector.
Patrick Blackett used the cloud chamber for groundbreaking studies of particles from the cosmos and from nuclear reactions. In 1932 Blackett and Giuseppe Occhialini connected the cloud chamber to a Geiger counter, which detects the passage of a particle.
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 ...
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett was a critical figure in the early development of operations research during World War II. Born in London, Blackett attended a military preparatory school, and served in the Royal Navy during World War I.
May 11, 2018 · Blackett pioneered operational research during the Second World War, and he was an influential voice in government circles from the 1930s to the 1970s on matters of science and technology policy, science education, nuclear armaments, and British technical aid to India. Nuclear Physics and the Cloud Chamber.
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"
by Luisa Bonolis. Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett. Nobel Prize in 1948 Physics. Cloud chamber and transmutation of nitrogen. Patrick Blackett was a remarkably versatile physicist, whose career touched science, warfare and politics.
British experimental physicist Patrick Blackett received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery among cosmic-ray secondaries of the particle now called the muon, confirmation of the positron (discovered by Carl Anderson ), and for the instrument development that made these possible.
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.
