Paul Taunton Matthews

Paul Taunton Matthews
Born19 November 1919 (1919-11-19)
Erode, British India (present-day Tamil Nadu, India)
Died26 February 1987(1987-02-26) (aged 67)
Cambridge, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
AwardsOrder of the British Empire
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Adams Prize (1958)
Rutherford Medal and Prize (1978)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsImperial College London
University of Bath
Science and Engineering Research Council
Doctoral advisorNicholas Kemmer
Doctoral studentsFaheem Hussain
Christopher Isham
Ghulam Murtaza
Other notable studentsAbdus Salam
Stanley Mandelstam
John Stewart Bell
Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong[2]
Notes
A close friend and mentor of the only Pakistani Nobel Prize holder, Dr. Abdus Salam, and of CERN physicist, Faheem Hussain.

Paul Taunton Matthews CBE FRS[1] (19 November 1919 – 26 February 1987) was a British theoretical physicist.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ a b Kibble, T. W. B. (1988). "Paul Taunton Matthews. 19 November 1919-26 February 1987". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 34: 554–580. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1988.0018. JSTOR 770061.
  2. ^ Andrew Whitaker, John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics: Vision and Integrity, Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 2.
  3. ^ Matthews, P. T. (1971). The nuclear apple: recent discoveries in fundamental physics. London: Chatto and Windus. ISBN 0-7011-1709-5.
  4. ^ Matthews, Paul T. (1974). Introduction to quantum mechanics. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-084036-9.
  5. ^ Salam, Abdus (October 1987). "Obituary: Paul Matthews". Physics Today. 40 (10): 142–146. Bibcode:1987PhT....40j.142S. doi:10.1063/1.2820245.