|
Date of Birth
|
18-November-1897
|
|
Place of Birth
|
Kensington
(Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, England, Greater London, United Kingdom, London)
|
|
Nationality
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Also know as
|
P. M. S. Blackett
|
|
Profession
|
Physicist, Politician, Scientist
|
|
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. He also made a major contribution in World War II advising on military strategy and developing operational research. His left-wing views saw an outlet in third world development and in influencing policy in the Labour Government of the 1960s.
|
