Patrick Blackett

The Right Honourable
The Lord Blackett
OM CH FRS
The Right Honourable The Lord Blackett OM CH FRS
	Patrick Blackett, c. 1948
Born	Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett; 18 November 1897; London, England
Died	13 July 1974 (aged 76); London, England
Resting place	Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England
Alma mater	Osborne Naval College; University of Cambridge;
Known for	Cloud chambers; Cosmic rays; Paleomagnetism;
Spouse	Constanza Bayon (m. 1924)
Children	2
Awards	Royal Medal (1940); Nobel Prize in Physics (1948); Dalton Medal (1948); Copley Medal (1956);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	King's College, Cambridge; Birkbeck, University of London; University of Manchester; Imperial College London;
Academic advisors	Ernest Rutherford
Doctoral students	Edward Bullard[citation needed]; Roberto Salmeron; Bibha Chowdhuri; Keith Runcorn[citation needed];
Other notable students	Ishrat Hussain Usmani; J. Robert Oppenheimer;
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Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH, FRS^[5] (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974), was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948.^[6] In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another.^[7] He also made a major contribution in World War II advising on military strategy and developing operational research. His views saw an outlet in third world development and in influencing policy in the Labour government of the 1960s.^[8]^[9]^[10]

^ Chowdhuri, Bibha (1949). Extensive air showers associated with penetrating particles. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643572452. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.601680. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
^ "SpaandanB Project: Imdad-Sitara Khan Scholarship". www.spaandanb.org. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ "::ISKKC::". www.iskkc.org. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J. (2005). American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-41202-8. OCLC 56753298.
^ Lovell, Bernard (1975). "Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, of Chelsea. 18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 21: 1–115. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1975.0001. S2CID 74674634.
^ H. S. W., Massey (September 1974). "Lord Blackett". Physics Today. 27 (9): 69–71. Bibcode:1974PhT....27i..69M. doi:10.1063/1.3128879.
^ Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stewart (2 February 1925). "The Ejection of Protons From Nitrogen Nuclei, Photographed by the Wilson Method". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 107(742), p. 349–360
^ Anderson, D. (2007). "Patrick Blackett: Physicist, Radical, and Chief Architect of the Manchester Computing Phenomenon". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 29 (3): 82–85. doi:10.1109/mahc.2007.4338448.
^ Anderson, R. S. (1999). "Patrick Blackett in India: Military consultant and scientific intervenor, 1947-72. Part one". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 53 (2): 253–273. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1999.0079. S2CID 144374364.
^ Nye, Mary Jo (2004). "Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron Blackett (1897–1974)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30822. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[bibphd-1] Chowdhuri, Bibha (1949). Extensive air showers associated with penetrating particles. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643572452. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.601680. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.

[2] "SpaandanB Project: Imdad-Sitara Khan Scholarship". www.spaandanb.org. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[3] "::ISKKC::". www.iskkc.org. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[4] Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J. (2005). American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-41202-8. OCLC 56753298.

[frs-5] Lovell, Bernard (1975). "Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, of Chelsea. 18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 21: 1–115. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1975.0001. S2CID 74674634.

[6] H. S. W., Massey (September 1974). "Lord Blackett". Physics Today. 27 (9): 69–71. Bibcode:1974PhT....27i..69M. doi:10.1063/1.3128879.

[7] Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stewart (2 February 1925). "The Ejection of Protons From Nitrogen Nuclei, Photographed by the Wilson Method". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 107(742), p. 349–360

[8] Anderson, D. (2007). "Patrick Blackett: Physicist, Radical, and Chief Architect of the Manchester Computing Phenomenon". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 29 (3): 82–85. doi:10.1109/mahc.2007.4338448.

[9] Anderson, R. S. (1999). "Patrick Blackett in India: Military consultant and scientific intervenor, 1947-72. Part one". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 53 (2): 253–273. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1999.0079. S2CID 144374364.

[odnb-10] Nye, Mary Jo (2004). "Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron Blackett (1897–1974)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30822. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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The Right Honourable The Lord Blackett OM CH FRS
Patrick Blackett, c. 1948
Born	Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897-11-18)18 November 1897 London, England
Died	13 July 1974(1974-07-13) (aged 76) London, England
Resting place	Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England
Alma mater	Osborne Naval College University of Cambridge
Known for	Cloud chambers Cosmic rays Paleomagnetism
Spouse	Constanza Bayon (m. 1924)
Children	2
Awards	Royal Medal (1940) Nobel Prize in Physics (1948) Dalton Medal (1948) Copley Medal (1956)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	King's College, Cambridge Birkbeck, University of London University of Manchester Imperial College London
Academic advisors	Ernest Rutherford
Doctoral students	Edward Bullard^{[citation needed]} Roberto Salmeron Bibha Chowdhuri^[1] Keith Runcorn^{[citation needed]}
Other notable students	Ishrat Hussain Usmani^[2]^[3] J. Robert Oppenheimer^[4]

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