Paul Taunton Matthews
Paul Taunton Matthews (born November 19, 1919 in Erode , India , † February 26, 1987 in Cambridge ) was a British physicist.
Matthews grew up in Madras as the son of a missionary and English teacher. He studied at Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate from Nicholas Kemmer . In Cambridge he worked with Abdus Salam in the late 1940s and early 1950s on renormalization theory . Later he was professor at Imperial College in London and head of the physics faculty there. He was Head of the Nuclear Physics Division of the UK Science Research Council and Vice Chancellor of Bath University . In retirement, for example, he was Head of the Scientific Advisory Board on Radioactive Waste Management in the UK. He died in Cambridge after a bicycle accident.
Matthews was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1963) and was a CBE . In 1958 he received the Adams Prize and in 1979 the Rutherford Medal.
Fonts
- Introduction to Quantum Mechanics , McGraw Hill, 1963, 3rd edition 1974
- The nuclear apple: recent discoveries in fundamental physics , Chatto and Windus 1971
literature
- Obituary by TWB Kibble in the Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, 1988
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Matthews, Paul Taunton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erode , India |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1987 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |