Person Pease; Rendel Sebastian (1922 - 2004) Pease Rendel Sebastian Bas 1922 - 2004 British Male Cambridge 02/11/1922 19221102 Oxford 17/10/2004 20041017

Physicist Atomic physics Education: Bedales School, Petersfield, Hampshire; physics wartime degree course, Trinity College, Cambridge (completed degree in Physics 1947) Career: Scientific Officer, Operational Research Service, RAF Bomber Command (1942-1946); Scientific Officer, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell (1947-1961), where he started to work on nuclear fusion in 1955, when he became the leader of the Physics Research Team at Harwell; British fusion programme transferred to Culham, where he became Division Head, Culham Laboratory for Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion (1961-1967), Assistant Director UKAEA Research Group (1967), Director Culham Lab (1968-1981), Programme Director for fusion (1981-1987), United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham; President, Institute of Physics (1978-1980); founder member of Pugwash Association; Chairman, British Pugwash Group (1988-2002); awarded Glazebrook Medal (1989); Visitor, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London (1992-1997). Pease was a strong advocate for the use of nuclear power, but equally opposed to the use of nuclear weapons. Son of Michael Pease, geneticist at Cambridge University and Helen Bowen nee Wedgewood, grandson of Edward Pease, founder of the Fabian Society; married (1952) Susan Spickernell (d 1996), married (1998) Jean White (d 2000), married (2004) Eleanor Barnes nee Spray Royal Society roles: Council: 1985-1987; VP 1986-1987 Fellow 17/03/1977 54 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 285-297, plate, by Chistopher Watson Obituaries in The Independent (21 October 2004), The Times (26 October 2004), Daily Telegraph (26 October 2004), Guardian (26 October 2004) Other references; See preface to 'Eliminating the Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction', Report of a symposium organized within the programme of the British Association Science Festival at the University of Exeter in September 2004. British Pugwash Group, 2004. [in Personal Information File] 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 2 Nov 1922 - 17 Oct 2004 NA393 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 05/06/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/191728498 9d5f32f3-eda0-424c-8eae-b2e8b2b44fbd