| Authorised form of name | Bleaney; Brebis (1915 - 2006) |
| Dates | 1915 - 2006 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 06/06/1915 |
| Place of death | Oxford |
| Date of death | 04/11/2006 |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Activity | Career:
Regarded, with Zavoisky, as one of the founding fathers of EOPR, who independently invented this technique in the post-war years in Oxford.
Lecturer in Physics, Balliol College, Oxford 1947-50; Fellow and Lecturer in Physics, St John's College, Oxford 1947-57, Tutor 1950-57, Honorary Fellow 1968; Research Fellow, Harvard University and MIT 1949; University Demonstrator and Lecturer in Physics, Oxford University 1945-57, Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy 1957-77 (Emeritus); FRS 1950; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow 1980-82; Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford 1957-77, Senior Research Fellow 1977-82, Emeritus Fellow 1982-2006;
Honours:
CBE 1965
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1950 |
| Age at election | 34 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1955-1956
Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1962
Grants and fellowships:
Warren Research Fellow, Royal Society 1977-80 |
| Relationships | Married Betty Plumpton (1949): one son, one daughter |
| Source | References:
B Bleaney, 'Jubilees of Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 317-326
Brebis Bleaney, 'Centenary of the Zeeman Effect' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 131-136
Brebis Bleaney, 'A Century of Physics in Oxford' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 333-343
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 1. Progress before 1940' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 317 - 322
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 2. Progress from 1945 to 1970' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 323 - 330
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 3. Progress from 1975 to 2001' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 331 - 344 |
| Code | NA3669 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/WS/6 | Bleaney, Brebis | 1950 |
| IM/GA/WS/3878 | Bleaney, Brebis | 1950 |
| HWT/33/2 | H W Thompson's personal correspondence as Foreign Secretary | January - June 1966 |
| RR/67/34 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on two papers 'The determination of the vapour-pressure curve of liquid helium below 1.6° K using a magnetic thermometer' and 'The effective susceptibility of a paramagnetic powder' by Brebis Bleaney and R A Hull | December 1940 |
| RR/73/86 | Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'Liquid helium films. II. The flow of the film' by K R Atkins | 26 April 1950 |
| EC/1950/04 | Bleaney, Brebis: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/69/26 | Referee's report by John Turton Randall, on a paper 'The inversion spectrum of ammonia at centimetre wave-lengths' by Brebis Bleaney and R P Penrose | 1946 |
| RR/73/143 | Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'Paramagnetic resonance spectra of five chromic sulphate alums at low temperatures' by Brebis Bleaney | 28 June 1950 |
| RR/73/85 | Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'Liquid helium films. I. The thickness of the film' by K R Atkins | 26 April 1950 |
| RR/73/144 | Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermal properties of potassium chromic alum between 0.05 and 1°K' by Brebis Bleaney | 28 June 1950 |
| RR/73/124 | Letter from Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'The thermal conductivity of tin, mercury, indium and tantalum at liquid helium temperatures' by John Kenneth Hulm to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society [D C Martin] | 8 June 1950 |