Patrick Blackett

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, was a British experimental physicist and life peer who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1925, he was the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another.

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Who was born first?

• Patrick Blackett and Tadeusz Reichstein were born the same year
• Patrick Blackett and Odd Hassel were born the same year
• Patrick Blackett and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish were born the same year
• Patrick Blackett and John Franklin Enders were born the same year
• Patrick Blackett and Jesse Douglas were born the same year

Timeline

1. Jesse DouglasJuly 3, 1897 – October 7, 1965
2. John Franklin EndersFebruary 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985
3. Odd HasselMay 17, 1897 – May 11, 1981
4. Patrick Blackett (this page)November 18, 1897 – July 13, 1974
5. Ronald George Wreyford NorrishNovember 9, 1897 – June 7, 1978
6. Tadeusz ReichsteinJuly 8, 1897 – August 1, 1996

Related

• Isaac NewtonDecember 25, 1642 – March 20, 1727
• Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAugust 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832
• Immanuel KantApril 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804
• René DescartesMarch 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650
• Marie CurieNovember 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934
• Nicolaus CopernicusFebruary 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543
• Louis PasteurDecember 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895
• Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizJune 21, 1646 – November 14, 1716