William George Penney, O. M., K. B. E., Baron Penney of East Hendred, 24 June 1909 - 3 March 1991
Autor: | Roger Mellor Makins |
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Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Zdroj: | Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 39:281-302 |
ISSN: | 1748-8494 0080-4606 |
DOI: | 10.1098/rsbm.1994.0017 |
Popis: | Lord Penney, a distinguished mathematician in his youth, gave up a promising academic career at the call of public service and became primarily responsible for developing and testing the British fission and fusion nuclear weapons. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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