Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett
British physicist
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH, FRS, was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948. Wikipedia
Born: November 18, 1897, Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Died: July 13, 1974 (age 76 years), London, United Kingdom
Academic advisor: Ernest Rutherford
Children: Nicolas Blackett and Giovanna Blackett
Education: University of Cambridge, Magdalene College, and King's College, Cambridge
Notable students: Bibha Chowdhuri, Edward Bullard, Roberto Salmeron, and more
Grandparents: Henry Ralph Blackett and Adelaide Mills
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