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JOHN DOUGLAS COCKCROFT (27 May 1897 to 18 September 1967)
Physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus. After the war, converted RAF Harwell to AERE Harwell for atomic research and became the first Director on 9 November 1945. |
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HAROLD MONTAGUE (Monty) FINNISTON (15 August 1912 to 2 February 1991)
British metallurgist and industrial administrator. |
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ANTHONY MILNER LANE (27 July 1928 to 9 February 2011)
Theoretical nuclear physicist; studied under Rudolf Peierls at Birmingham; met Einstein and Oppenheimer at Princeton 1954; joined Theoretical Physics Division (Hangar 8) May 1953. |
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WALTER CHARLES MARSHALL (5 March 1932 to 20 February 1996)
Theoretical physicist; studied under Rudolf Peierls at Birmingham; Deputy Director of AERE Harwell (1966), Director (1968), Deputy Chairman UKAEA (1975), Chairman UKAEA (1981), Chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB, 1982), Chairman of the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO, 1989). |
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RUDOLF (Rudy) ERNST PEIERLS (5 June 1907 to 19 September 1995)
Wrote a paper explaining how a uranium fission bomb could become a weapon, a paper which let to the Manhattan Project. After the war, professor of physics at Birmingham University until 1963 when he moved to the University of Oxford. |
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THOMAS GERALD (Gerry) PICKAVANCE (19 October 1915 to 12 November 1991)
Key to the development of Nimrod, and the first Director of Rutherford High Energy Laboratory. |
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GODFREY HARRY STAFFORD (15 April 1920 to 29 July 2013)
Godfrey Stafford was one of the leaders in the creation of the laboratory, and in the diversification of its role to meet the evolving needs of Big Science. He worked in partnership with other directors in the interests of laboratories round the world, including CERN, where he was highly regarded and held several important positions, including chair of the Scientific Policy Committee. |
