Role Physicist Nationality British | Name Paul Matthews Fields Theoretical physics | |
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Institutions Imperial College LondonUniversity of BathScience and Engineering Research Council Doctoral students Faheem HussainChristopher Isham Died February 26, 1987, Cambridge Books Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, The Nuclear Apple: Recent Discoveries in Fundamental Physics Similar People Abdus Salam, Nicholas Kemmer, Faheem Hussain, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Steven Weinberg | ||
Education Imperial College London | ||
Paul Taunton Matthews CBE FRS (19 November 1919 – 26 February 1987) was a British theoretical physicist.
Biography
Matthews was born in Erode in British India. He was awarded the Adams Prize in 1958, elected to the Royal Society in 1963, and awarded the Rutherford Medal and Prize in 1978. He became head of the Physics Department of Imperial College, London and later vice chancellor of the University of Bath. He was also awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath in 1983. He was also chairman of the Nuclear Physics Board of the Science Research Council.
He died in Cambridge from injuries sustained in a cycling accident.
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