| Authorised form of name | Moon; Philip Burton (1907 - 1994) |
| Dates | 1907 - 1994 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Lewisham, England |
| Date of birth | 17/05/1907 |
| Date of death | 09/10/1994 |
| Activity | Education:
Leyton County High School; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (graduated 1928)
Career:
Research, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, under Mark Oliphant (FRS 1937); Assistant Lecturer, Imperial College, London (1931), Lecturer (1934); Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Birmingham (1938); seconded to the British Scientific Central Office, Washington DC (1942); worked on Manhattan Project, Los Alamos (1943); worked on the 'Tube Alloys' project (World War II); Reader (1943), Professor (1946), University of Birmingham; Poynting Professor of Physics (1950-1974); Head, Department of Physics (to 1970); Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (1969-1972)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1947 |
| Age at election | 39 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Hughes 1991
Lectures:
Rutherford 1975 |
| Source | AssocMaterial:
NCUACS 69/7/97. Papers deposited in the Library, University of Birmingham
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1996 vol 42 pp 247-264, plate, by W E Burcham and G R Isaak
References:
'Address of the President, Sir Michael Atiyah, Given at the Anniversary Meeting on 29 November 1991' in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 155-169 |
| Code | NA6262 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/WS/2919 | Moon, Philip Burton | nd |
| PB/1/33/1/6 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| RR/54/60 | Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Neutrons of thermal energies' by Philip Burton Moon and J R Tillman | November 1935 |
| RR/70/113 | Letter from Philip Burton Moon, on a paper 'On the theory of electrical fluctuations' by R Fürth to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 27 July 1947 |
| RR/67/151 | Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Experiments with a velocity-spectrometer for slow neutrons' by G E F Fertel, D F Gibbs, Philip Burton Moon, George Paget Thomson and C E Wynn-Williams | April 1940 |
| IM/003151 | Moon, Philip Burton | nd |
| EC/1947/19 | Moon, Philip Burton: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/71/109 | Letter from Philip Burton Moon, to David Christie Martin, regarding two papers 'On the theory of electrical fluctuations' by R Fürth and 'On the theory of electrical fluctuations' by David Keith Chalmers Macdonald | 30 April 1948 |
| RR/70/114 | Referee's report by Philip Burton Moon, on a paper 'On the theory of electrical fluctuations' by R Fürth | 24 July 1947 |