Nicholas Kemmer

Nicholas Kemmer
Born(1911-12-07)7 December 1911
Died21 October 1998(1998-10-21) (aged 86)
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish–GermanRussian
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
University of Zurich
Imperial College London
Known forBritish nuclear programme
Neutron scattering
Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau algebra
AwardsGunning Victoria Jubilee Prize (1984)
Max Planck Medal (1983)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1975)
Hughes Medal (1966)
FRS (1956)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
InstitutionsTube Alloys
Manhattan Project
Trinity College, Cambridge
Berkeley Radiation Laboratory
University of Edinburgh
Doctoral advisorWolfgang Pauli
Gregor Wentzel
Doctoral studentsAbdus Salam
Paul Taunton Matthews
Richard Dalitz
John Stephen Roy Chisholm
Lalit Mohan Nath

Nicholas Kemmer FRS FRSE (7 December 1911 – 21 October 1998) was a Russian-born nuclear physicist working in Britain, who played an integral and leading edge role in United Kingdom's nuclear programme, and was known as a mentor of Abdus Salam – a Nobel laureate in physics.

  1. ^ Dyson, F. (2011). "Nicholas Kemmer. 7 December 1911 -- 21 October 1998". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 57: 189–204. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2011.0008.