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Patrick Blackett

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Also known as Patrick Maynard Blackett, Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

British physicist (1897-1974)

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Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, was a British scientist born on November 18, 1897, and died on July 13, 1974. He is recognized in the Nobel Physics collection and the Nobel Laureates collection. His publications include *The atom and the charter*, *The gap widens*, *Fear, war and the bomb*, *Technology and world advancement*, and *Atomic weapons and east-west relations*.

Blackett is acknowledged in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is referenced by 594 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1897
Died
1974
Works
46

Top works

  • The atom and the charter
  • The gap widens
  • Fear, war and the bomb
  • Technology and world advancement
  • Atomic weapons and east-west relations

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

    · 2021 · cited 85,040x

  2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,208x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,887x

  4. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

    · 2009 · cited 18,983x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,620x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1948

    “for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation”

NobelPrize.org →

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Encyclopedic overview

Giuseppe Occhialini and Blackett (right), 1932 or 1933

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974), was a British experimental physicist and life peer 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Patrick Blackett” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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