Person Rochester; George Dixon (1908 - 2001) Rochester George Dixon 1908 - 2001 British Male Wallsend, North Tyneside 04/02/1908 19080204 26/12/2001 20011226

Nuclear physics 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 Son of a blacksmith; married (1938) Idaline Bayliffe; one son, one daughter Royal Society roles: Council: 1972-1974 Fellow 20/03/1958 50 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 4 Feb 1908 - NA3224 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 9d2028a0-b474-4369-95a1-eeff154286ee