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Nicholas Kemmer
British physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas Kemmer FRS FRSE (7 December 1911 – 21 October 1998) was a Russian-born nuclear physicist working in Britain, who played an integral and leading edge role in United Kingdom's nuclear programme, and was known as a mentor of Abdus Salam – a Nobel laureate in physics.
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Born | (1911-12-07)7 December 1911 |
Died | 21 October 1998(1998-10-21) (aged 86) Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | British–German–Russian |
Alma mater | University of Göttingen University of Zurich Imperial College London |
Known for | British nuclear programme Neutron scattering Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau algebra |
Awards | Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize (1984) Max Planck Medal (1983) J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1975) Hughes Medal (1966) FRS (1956)[1] |
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Fields | Nuclear physics |
Institutions | Tube Alloys Manhattan Project Trinity College, Cambridge Berkeley Radiation Laboratory University of Edinburgh |
Doctoral advisor | Wolfgang Pauli Gregor Wentzel |
Doctoral students | Abdus Salam Paul Taunton Matthews Richard Dalitz John Stephen Roy Chisholm Lalit Mohan Nath |
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