Person    | Male  Born 18/11/1897  Died 13/7/1974

Patrick Blackett

Categories: Science

Physicist. Born Kensington, Served in the navy in WW1. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. Government and military advisor in WW2. Created a life peer in 1969 as Baron Blackett of Chelsea. Died in London.

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