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Also Known As	Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea
Born	November 18, 1897 • London • England
Died	July 13, 1974 (aged 76) • London • England
Awards And Honors	Copley Medal (1956) • Nobel Prize (1948)
Subjects Of Study	cloud chamber

Sir Martin Ryle.

Sir Martin Ryle

British astronomer

P.A.M. Dirac

P.A.M. Dirac

English physicist

Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.

Lord Rayleigh

British scientist

Sir William Bragg

Sir William Bragg

British physicist

C.T.R. Wilson, 1927

C.T.R. Wilson

British physicist

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

British physicist

Josephson, Brian D.

Brian D. Josephson

British physicist

Charles Kao

British-American physicist

Lord Florey.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey

Australian pathologist

Cockcroft

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft

British physicist

Powell, Cecil Frank

Cecil Frank Powell

British physicist

Dennis Gabor

British engineer

J.J. Thomson

J.J. Thomson

British physicist

Bragg, Sir Lawrence

Sir Lawrence Bragg

British physicist

James Chadwick

James Chadwick

British physicist

Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.

Sir Nevill F. Mott

British physicist

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

German physicist and philosopher

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian physicist

Marie Curie

Marie Curie

Polish-born French physicist

Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie

French chemist

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

Physics and Natural Law

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

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