BLACKETT (OF CHELSEA), PATRICK M(AYNARD) S(TUART), BARON


Meaning of BLACKETT (OF CHELSEA), PATRICK M(AYNARD) S(TUART), BARON in English

born Nov. 18, 1897, London, Eng.

died July 13, 1974, London

British physicist.

He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1921 and spent 10 years at the Cavendish Laboratory, where he developed the Wilson cloud chamber into an instrument for the study of cosmic radiation. He was awarded a 1948 Nobel Prize for his discoveries and was made a life peer in 1969.

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