| Nicholas Kemmer AKA Nikolaus Pavlovitch Kemmer Born: 7-Dec-1911
Birthplace: St Petersberg, Russia
Died: 21-Oct-1998
Location of death: Edinburgh, Scotland
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Nuclear weapons and reactors Nicholas Kemmer made numerous discoveries in electrodynamics and theoretical nuclear physics, including World War II work on the Tube Alloys project, the super-secret British equivalent of America's Manhattan Project. He studied under Max Born, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli, worked with John Cockcroft on nuclear reactors after the war, and his own students included Richard Dalitz and Abdus Salam. Father: Nicholas P. Kemmer (engineer)
Mother: Barbara Stutzer Kemmer Classen
Wife: Margaret Wragg Kemmer (m. 1947, two sons, one daughter)
High School: Bismarck School, Bismarck, Germany (1929)
University: BS Physics, University of Göttingen (1933)
University: PhD Physics, University of Zurich (1936)
Teacher: Physics, Imperial College London (1936-40)
Teacher: Physics, Cambridge University (1940-44)
Teacher: Mathematics & Physics, Cambridge University (1946-53)
Professor: Mathematical Physics, University of Edinburgh (1953-79)
Max Planck Medal 1983
Hughes Medal 1966
Royal Society 1956
Naturalized UK Citizen 1942
Russian Ancestry
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