| Authorised form of name | Rochester; George Dixon (1908 - 2001) |
| Dates | 1908 - 2001 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Wallsend, North Tyneside |
| Date of birth | 04/02/1908 |
| Date of death | 26/12/2001 |
| Research field | Nuclear physics |
| Activity | Education:
Wallsend Secondary School; Armstrong College (now Newcastle University): BSc; MSc; PhD.
Career:
Earl Grey Memorial Scholarship to Armstrong College; Earl Grey Fellow, Stockholm University; research into spectroscopy as Commonwealth Fellow, Berkeley, California; Assistant Lecturer, Manchester University (1937-1946); Lecturer, Manchester University (1946-1949); Senior Lecturer, Manchester University (1949-1953); Reader, Manchester University (1953-1955); worked with Sir Clifford Butler (FRS 1961); discovered the Kaon; Emeritus Professor of Physics, Durham University (1955-1973) and established a cosmic ray group; awarded the CV Boys Prize by the Physical Society jointly with Sir Clifford Butler (1956); Second Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Durham University (1967-1969); Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1969-1970); retired (1973); new building for the Physics Department, Durham University, named after him (opened 1997); also has Rochester Lecture (Durham) and Rochester Book Prize (awarded annually, alternately in Durham and Newcastle to the best undergraduate in first year science) named after him |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1958 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1972-1974 |
| Relationships | Son of a blacksmith; married (1938) Idaline Bayliffe; one son, one daughter |
| Source | Sources:
Daily Telegraph obituary (10 January 2002)
References:
Clifford Butler, 'Recollections of Patrick Blackett 1945-70' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 143-156
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 415-430, plate, by Sir Arnold Wolfendale |
| Code | NA3224 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/TGRS/8550 | Rochester, George Dixon | ? 1989 |
| IM/003864 | Rochester, George Dixon | nd |
| EC/1958/22 | Rochester, George Dixon: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/54/112 | Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The vibrational analysis of the absorption spectrum of lead sulphide' by George Dixon Rochester and H G Howell | August 1934 |
| RR/69/269 | Referee's report by Arthur Mannering Tyndall, on a paper 'A cloud-chamber investigation of penetrating showers' by George Dixon Rochester | 1946 |
| RR/57/8 | Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The band spectra of the lead halides, PbF and PbCI' by George Dixon Rochester | 2 August 1935 |
| RR/57/9 | Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'The absorption spectrum of stannous sulphide' by George Dixon Rochester | 26 March 1935 |
| RR/68/234 | Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Penetrating non-ionizing cosmic rays' by L Jánossy and George Dixon Rochester | [1942] |
| RR/68/384 | Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The production of penetrating showers' by L Jánossy and George Dixon Rochester | [1943] |
| RR/68/484 | Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on three papers 'The transition effect of penetrating showers' and 'The barometer effect of penetrating showers' by L Jánossy and George Dixon Rochester, and 'Some aspects of the production of mesons and the barometer effect of penetrating showers' by L Jánossy | [1944] |