| RefNo | EC/1941/05 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XV, 5; A01853 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Dee, Philip Ivor: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | University Lecturer in Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. His investigation with the Wilson Cloud Chamber have been of the greatest importance in the development of Nuclear Physics since 1932. In pioneer investigations on the neutron, his photographs demonstrated the lack of interaction of neutrons with electrons. Working on transmutations produced by protons and deuterons he obtained the well-known photographs showing the transmutation of Lithium into two alpha particles (Proc Roy Soc A 141, 749) and the production of the new isotopes of Hydrogen and Helium of mass three from the transmutation o9f deuterium (Proc Roy Soc A 148, 623; 149, 200). Astudy of the break up of Boron under proton bombardment into three alpha particles has furnished confirmation of the Bohr picture of nuclear processes, and his work with Gilbert on proton-neutron scattering has confirmed the short range character of nuclear forces. He is now in charge of the new Cavendish High Voltage Laboratory and has been largely responsible for its development. |
| Proposers | J Chadwick; R H Fowler; J D Cockroft; W L Bragg; E V Appleton; C G Darwin; P A M Dirac; P M S Blackett; C T R Wilson; F W Aston; E C Stoner |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7431 | Dee; Philip Ivor (1904 - 1983) | 1904 - 1983 |