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Patrick Blackett

1897 - 1974

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Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was an English physicist who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1925, he was the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another. He also made major contributions to the Allied war effort in World War II, advising on military strategy and developing operational research. In the war's aftermath, Blackett continued his scientific work, but also became outspoken on political matters. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Patrick Blackett is the 58th most popular physicist (up from 244th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 659th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Physicist.

Patrick Blackett was a British physicist who is most famous for his work in the field of quantum mechanics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948.

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Among physicists, Patrick Blackett ranks 58 out of 851. Before him are Gabriel Lippmann, K. Alex Müller, Wilhelm Wien, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Richard Feynman, and Sheldon Lee Glashow. After him are Henry Cavendish, Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Wolfgang Pauli, Andrei Sakharov, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.

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Among people born in 1897, Patrick Blackett ranks 5. Before him are Joseph Goebbels, Pope Paul VI, Irène Joliot-Curie, and William Faulkner. After him are Amelia Earhart, Zakir Husain, Tadeusz Reichstein, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Ivan Konev, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Thích Quảng Đức. Among people deceased in 1974, Patrick Blackett ranks 8. Before him are Oskar Schindler, Georgy Zhukov, Georges Pompidou, Amin al-Husseini, Juan Perón, and Ayub Khan. After him are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, James Chadwick, Pär Lagerkvist, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Vittorio De Sica, and U Thant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Patrick Blackett ranks 169 out of 8,785. Before him are William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (1935), Brian Johnson (1947), Ridley Scott (1937), Jane Seymour (1508), and Roger Bacon (1220). After him are Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), Robert Edwards (1925), Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), Jeremy Bentham (1748), Mark Knopfler (1949), and Geoffrey Chaucer (1343).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Patrick Blackett ranks 17. Before him are Owen Willans Richardson (1879), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), and Brian Josephson (1940). After him are Charles Glover Barkla (1877), Paul Dirac (1902), James Chadwick (1891), C. F. Powell (1903), William Henry Bragg (1862), and Thomas Young (1773).

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