Herbert Skinner

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner (born October 7, 1900 in London Borough of Ealing , † January 20, 1960 in Geneva ) was a physicist .

Life

Even as a child, Herbert Skinner was concerned with isothermal changes in state , as his father, George Herbert Skinner, developed a carburetor for motor vehicles. In 1909 Skinner started school at Durston House School . In 1914, thanks to his mathematical skills, he won a scholarship at the Rugby School , which he attended from September 1914. His development at rugby school was very successful, he won prizes in mathematics and science. When he left rugby in 1919, he was best in sciences. From October 1919 Herbert attended Trinity College in Cambridge . After the Mathematical Tripos , he completed the Natural Sciences Tripos in the summer of 1922 .

job

From 1925 to 1930 Skinner worked at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge , for which he received in part a Coutts Trotter Studentship Scholarship from Trinity College. In 1919 Ernest Rutherford had returned to Cambridge and nuclear fission was attempted again with James Chadwick . In 1938 Skinner measured energy bands in metals using X-ray absorption spectroscopy .

From 1940 he was with Philip Dee , WBLewis, Bernard Lovell , DWFry, John Cockcroft and JA Ratcliffe on the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) under APRowe, the former Bawdsey Research Station , on the radar development involved.

From 1947 to 1949 Skinner was deputy head of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell under John Cockcroft . He was also the superior of Klaus Fuchs, who was later exposed as a spy, and of Bruno Pontecorvo , who later moved to the Soviet Union - he was friends with both of them. Skinner held the Lyon Jones Chair of Physics at the University of Liverpool from 1949 to 1960 .

In 1957 he was head of a commission that strongly recommended the establishment of a synchrotron . In 1960 HWB Skinner was employed at CERN .

Publications

with Charles Drummond Ellis , (1895–1980) The Absolute Energies of the Groups in Magnetic β-Ray Spectra The Royal Society , London 1924

swell

  1. ^ HWB Skinner: The soft x-ray spectroscopy of the solid state. In: Reports on Progress in Physics. 5, 1938, pp. 257-283, doi : 10.1088 / 0034-4885 / 5/1/323 .
  2. ↑ cns-snc.ca: Wilfrid Bennett Lewis (1908-1987) ( Memento from September 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography: Albert Percival Rowe (1898-1976)
  4. ^ Radar Recollections: Leeson House
  5. ^ The National Archives: KV 2/2082: Professor Herbert Wakefield Banks SKINNER
  6. ^ University of Liverpool: Emeritus Professors, Professors and Honorary Graduates ( Memento of April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Skinner, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skinner, Herbert Wakefield Banks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH London Borough of Ealing
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1960
Place of death Geneva