| Authorised form of name | Mitchell; Sir; Edgar William John (1925 - 2002) |
| Other forms of name | Bill |
| Dates | 1925 - 2002 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Kingsbridge, Devon, England |
| Date of birth | 25/09/1925 |
| Place of death | Reading |
| Date of death | 30/10/2002 |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Research field | Physics |
| Activity | Education:
Physics degree from Sheffield University (1943-1946); apprentice research physicist at Metropolitan Vickers (1946); seconded from Metropolitan Vickers to Bristol University, in Professor Mott's department, took PhD under supervision of Dr J W Mitchell (1946-1951))
Career:
Returned to work at Metropolitan Vickers (1951); physics lecturership at Reading University(1951); Professor of Physics, Reading University (1961); Head of Department of Physics, Reading University while serving terms as Dean of Science (1966) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor; chairman of neutron beam research committee of the Science Research Council (1966 - 1974); Dr Lees Professor of experimental philosophy and head of Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University (1978); Chairman for many years of the neutron beam research committee of the SRC; fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; negotiated an equal partnership for the UK with France and Germany to build special purpose reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble; Chairman of Science and Engineering Research Council (1985 - 1990); senior research fellow, Wadham College, Oxford; chairman of the Diamond Research Fund (-2000); vice-president of the European Science Foundation (1989 - 1992); president of CERN (1991); awarded the Officer's Cross of the German Order of Merit; awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Budapest; honorary doctorates from universities of Reading, Kent and Birmingham;
Honours:
CBE 1976; Kt 1990
Fellowships:
Fellow of Royal Society of South Africa |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1986 |
| Age at election | 60 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2004 vol 50 pp 171-181, plate, by Roger A Cowley |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/187149005 |
| Code | NA6204 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1986/26 | Mitchell, Sir Edgar William John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1985 |
| IM/GA/SGRS/8467 | Mitchell, Sir Edgar William John | 1986 |
| RR/75/129 | Referee's report by Kathleen Lonsdale, on a paper 'The work functions of copper, silver and aluminium' by Edgar William John Mitchell and John Wesley Mitchell | 2 August 1951 |