biography
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Titterton, Sir Ernest (William)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1916–90)
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| biography:
| Nuclear physicist, born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, C England, UK. He studied at Birmingham University, and was a member of the British mission to USA for the development of the atomic bomb (1943). He was senior member of the timing team at the first atomic test in 1945, and adviser on instrumentation at the Bikini Atoll tests in 1946, before returning to Los Alamos, New Mexico, as head of the electronics division until 1947. He then worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire, until 1950, when he became professor of nuclear physics at the Australian National University, Canberra. |
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