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 Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1956
NPG x86381
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 12 October 1965
NPG x21939
after Sir David Low
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 30 July 1949
NPG D43353
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