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	Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH, FRS (November 18, 1897–July 13, 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism.
		Blackett was awarded the OM, the CH, and in 1948 the Nobel Prize for Physics, for his investigation of cosmic rays undertaken at Manchester using his invention of the counter-controlled cloud chamber, confirming the existence of the positron and discovering the now instantly recogniseable opposing spiral traces of positron/electron pair production.
		Blackett's theory of planetary magnetism and gravity were taken up by the science fiction author James Blish who cited Blackett's equation as the theoretical 'basis' behind his 'spindizzy' antigravity drive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Maynard_Stuart_Blackett (561 words)

	PATRICK BLACKETT, BARON BLACKETT FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH, FRS (November_18, 1897–July_13, 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud_chambers, cosmic_rays, and paleomagnetism.
		Blackett was awarded the OM, the CH, and in 1948 the Nobel_Prize for Physics, for his investigation of cosmic_rays undertaken at Manchester using his invention of the counter-controlled cloud_chamber, confirming the existence of the positron and discovering the now instantly recogniseable opposing spiral traces of positron/electron pair production.
		Blackett's theory of planetary magnetism and gravity were taken up by the science_fiction author James_Blish who cited Blackett's_equation as the theoretical 'basis' behind his 'spindizzy' antigravity drive.
	www.witwib.com /Patrick_Blackett,_Baron_Blackett (515 words)

	Patrick M.S. Blackett - Biography
		Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett was born on 18th November, 1897, the son of Arthur Stuart Blackett.
		Professor Blackett was appointed Head of the Physics Department of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, in 1953 and retired in July, 1963.
		Blackett was awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society in 1940 and the American Medal for Merit, for operational research work in connection with the U-boat campaign, in 1946.
	nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1948/blackett-bio.html (1089 words)

	Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Biography / Biography of Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett History of Scientific ...
		Blackett was born in London on November 18, 1897.
		Blackett's earliest research involved the use of C. Wilson 's cloud chamber, invented in 1911.
		Blackett and Occhialini concluded that they were the positrons originally hypothesized by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac in 1930 and discovered by Carl David Anderson only a few months before Blackett's observation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-patrick-maynard-stuart-blackett-wsd (754 words)

	Eldridge Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett was a key member of the international circle of scientists who led the Allied defense research efforts of World War II, and he was the heart and soul of the Cold War military-academic-industrial complex.
		After a summary of Blackett’s contribution to Britain’s war preparation efforts during the 1930s, several chapters are devoted to his wartime work on defense science, technology, and policy.
		The final chapters examine the postwar public controversy sparked by Blackett’s vocal opposition to nuclear weapons, his long association with Indian political leaders and scientists, a summary of his Nobel-winning career as a physicist, and his role in the first administration of England’s prime minister Harold Wilson during the late 1960s.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/review/2004/Winter/br13-w04.htm (697 words)

	AIM25: Royal Society: Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron Blackett of Chelsea (1897-1974)
		Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron Blackett of Chelsea (1897-1974)
		Blackett was always politically committed to the left, and in later years to developing countries and especially to India.
		Blackett's political interests are represented by material relating to the Association of Scientific Workers, Labour Party discussion groups on science and technology policy and the Ministry of Technology instituted after the Party's 1964 electoral victory.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/18/837.htm (875 words)

	Imperial College London \|
		Blackett's second set of really famous experiments came in the early 1930s when he collaborated with Giuseppe Occhialini on devising a cloud chamber in which expansion of the cloud chamber is triggered by passage of charged particles in cosmic radiation.
		As I mentioned earlier, Blackett's most spectacular failure was his disproof, using his own magnetometer, of his well-publicized hypothesis that the magnetic fields of the sun, stars, and earth are a fundamental property of their rotating mass.
		Blackett exemplifies the men and women of a new post-World War II scientific elite who took up the role of scientific advisors to political and military establishments in which science and technology was to be employed to insure national economic development and national security.
	www.ic.ac.uk /physics/about/overview/blackett_nye/lecture.htm (6129 words)

	Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Stuart's hard-riding troopers formed a screen between Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces and the Union armies.
		The enduring legends of St. Patrick are that he used a shamrock to explain the Trinity and that he banished all snakes from Ireland.
		U.S. politician Maynard Jackson was elected in 1973 as the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Ga. At the age of 35, he was also the youngest person to become mayor of a major U.S. city.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9317576?tocId=9317576&query=maynard (678 words)

	Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron Blackett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He was awarded a Nobel prize 1948 for work in cosmic radiation and his perfection of the cloud chamber, an apparatus for tracking ionized particles.
		In 1924, working under physicist Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge, Blackett made the first photograph of an atomic transmutation, which was of nitrogen into an oxygen isotope.
		He continued to develop the cloud chamber and 1932 designed one where photographs of cosmic rays were taken automatically; the device soon confirmed the existence of the positron.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Blackett/1.html (134 words)

	SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE AND POLITICS
		Blackett was internationally known at this time for his experiments and photographs demonstrating the disintegration of the nitrogen nucleus by alpha particles and the existence of positrons in cosmic rays.
		In 1935, Blackett was serving on the committee chaired by Henry T. Tizard to advise Winston Churchill and the Air Ministry on military strategies, especially radar and saturation bombing.
		Blackett was a member of the recently radicalized Association of Scientific Workers, which had been founded at the conclusion of the First World War.
	www.kfki.hu /(plain)/chemonet/polanyi/9602/sci1.html (3565 words)

	Blackett, Patrick M.S.
		July 13, 1974, London), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948 for his discoveries in the field of cosmic radiation, which he accomplished primarily with cloud-chamber photographs that revealed the way in which a stable atomic nucleus can be disintegrated by bombarding it with alpha particles (helium nuclei).
		Blackett became professor of physics at the University of London in 1933 and Langworthy professor of physics at the University of Manchester in 1937.
		He established a school of cosmic-ray research and stimulated the development of other research interests, which led to the creation of the first chair of radio astronomy, at the University of Manchester, and to the building of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station for Radio Astronomy.
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	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897-1974)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948 for work in cosmic radiation and his perfection of the Wilson cloud chamber, an apparatus for tracking ionized particles, with which he confirmed the existence of positrons.
		Blackett was born in Croydon, Surrey, and joined the navy in 1912; after World War I, he studied science at Cambridge.
		In 1924, working under physicist Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge, Blackett...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100119079&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (167 words)

	Harvard University Press/Blackett/Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the heart of Mary Jo Nye's thought-provoking biography of British physicist and Nobel laureate Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett is the question of whether science and politics mix.
		In exploring Blackett's life, Nye portrays a researcher, political adviser and scientific leader willing to take risks, move into new areas of research and speak out on matters of politics and war.
		Some of the credit belongs to Blackett as a profoundly interesting human being and it is easier to write an interesting book about an interesting person than about a boring one; some also certainly belongs to Professor Nye who has gained an easy and readable writing style.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /reviews/NYEBLA_R.html (322 words)

	Otto Robert Frisch biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Here he produced novel work on the diffraction of atoms (using crystal surfaces) and also proved that the magnetic moment of the proton was much larger than had been previously supposes.
		The accession of Adolf Hitler to the chancellorship of Germany in 1933 made Frisch make the decision to move to London where he joined the staff at Birkbeck College and worked with the physicist Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett on cloud chamber technology and artificial radioactivity.
		He followed this with a five year stint in Copenhagen with Niels Bohr where he increasingly specialised in nuclear physics particularly neutron physics.
	otto-robert-frisch.biography.ms (476 words)

	BLACKETT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	AllRefer.com - Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett[blak´it] Pronunciation Key, 1897–1974, English physicist.
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	Naval War College Review: Hore, Peter, ed. Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist, Socialist - Book Review
		The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, but there is otherwise little integration among them--a characteristic only exacerbated by Blackett's wide-ranging interests and expertise.
		In some cases the focus is so narrow that the book's main subject--Blackett--is conspicuous by his absence.
		Mary Jo Nye's contribution, "A Physicist in the Corridors of Power," must also be singled out for praise.
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	NPG 4529(34); Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 1st Baron Blackett
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		Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 1st Baron Blackett (1897-1974), Physicist.
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	Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron Blackett of Chelsea (1897-1974)
		The papers are extensive, relating to almost every aspect of Blackett's career in science and public life.
		There are no documents relative to Blackett's service with the National Research and Development Corporation or the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and, of his correspondence during the Second World War, only that for 1942 survives.
		Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/oai/OAI2.0?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=nuclearphysics (1087 words)

	Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics
		Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics
		Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett - Biography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
		Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Biography (submitted by Mike)
	www.almaz.com /nobel/physics/1948a.html (150 words)

	It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897-1974): It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its...
		It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
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	The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Patrick Blackett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		According to our current on-line database, Patrick Blackett has 1 students and 24 descendants.
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	American Scientist Online - Mary Jo Nye
		Her most recent book is Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 2004), a biography of the British physicist and Nobel laureate Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett.
		Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century (Pi Press, 2005) and Peter Goodchild's Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove (Harvard University Press, 2004).
		I have been thinking about different ways to write biographies because of my own recent work on the physicist Patrick Blackett.
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