biography
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Blackett, Patrick M(aynard) S(tuart) Blackett, Baron
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| lived:
| (1897–1974)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge University. He was the first to photograph nuclear collisions involving transmutation (1925), and in 1932, independently of Carl Anderson, he discovered the positron. He pioneered research on cosmic radiation, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. He was professor at London (1933–7), Manchester (1937–53), and the Imperial College of Science and Technology (1953–74). He became a life peer in 1969. |
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