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Patrick M. S. Blackett

Patrick M. S. BlackettAKA Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

Born: 18-Nov-1897
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 13-Jul-1974
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Studied cosmic radiation

Military service: Royal Navy (WWI)

Father: Arthur Stuart Blackett
Wife: Constanza Bayon (m. 1924, one son, one daughter)Constanza Bayon (m. 1924, one son, one daughter)

    University: Osborne Naval College (1917)
    University: Cambridge University (1921)
    Professor: Physics, University of London (1933-)
    Professor: Langworthy Professor of Physics, University of Manchester (1937-)
    Professor: Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (1953-63)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1948
    Royal Society President, 1965-70

Author of books:
Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy (1948)


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