Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897-1974)
English physicist
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett was a physicist with wide-ranging scientific and personal interests. He is best known for his improvement...
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Blackett, Patrick
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897–1974) was born in Kensington, London, on November 18, and became a Nobel Prize–winning physicist who at once promoted scientific r...
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Blackett was born in London on November 18, 1897. He attended the naval colleges at Dartmouth and Osborne and, when World War I began, joined the Royal Navy. At the conclusion of the war, Blackett enr...
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The British physicist Patrick M. S. Blackett (1897-1974) used a modified Wilson cloud chamber to obtain the first photographs of the tracks left by the particles involved in a nuclear disintegration a...
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