Patrick Blackett
(1897-1974), Physicist; government and military advisor; recipient of the Nobel Prize for PhysicsPatrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett
Sitter in 26 portraits
Blackett's pioneering research in nuclear physics led to an important role as a scientific adviser during the Second World War. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. The driving force behind Operational Research during the War, and later influential in promoting the adaptation of wartime discoveries, it was not until the 1960s that his ideas were again given government backing.
by Lucia Moholy
modern resin-coated print, 1936
NPG x76384
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, February 1942
NPG x165293
by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2986
by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2988
by Howard Coster
quarter-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x2989
by Walter Stoneman
negative, February 1942
NPG x5924
by Walter Stoneman
negative, February 1942
NPG x5925
by Walter Stoneman
negative, February 1942
NPG x5926
by Walter Stoneman
negative, February 1942
NPG x5927
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