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Authorised form of nameBleaney; Brebis (1915 - 2006); physicist
Dates1915 - 2006
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth06/06/1915
Place of deathOxford
Date of death04/11/2006
OccupationPhysicist
ActivityCareer:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/03/1950
Age at election34
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1955-1956
Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1962
Grants and fellowships:
Warren Research Fellow, Royal Society 1977-80
RelationshipsMarried Betty Plumpton (1949): one son, one daughter
SourceReferences:
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
CodeNA3669
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/WS/6Bleaney, Brebis1950
IM/GA/WS/3878Bleaney, Brebis1950
HWT/33/2H W Thompson's personal correspondence as Foreign SecretaryJanuary - June 1966
RR/73/259Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'Experiments with an anisotropic crystal at temperature below 1'K' by G C B Garrett27 October 1950
RR/67/34Referee'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 HullDecember 1940
EC/1950/04Bleaney, Brebis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/69/26Referee's report by John Turton Randall, on a paper 'The inversion spectrum of ammonia at centimetre wave-lengths' by Brebis Bleaney and R P Penrose1946
RR/73/85Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'Liquid helium films. I. The thickness of the film' by K R Atkins26 April 1950
RR/73/86Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'Liquid helium films. II. The flow of the film' by K R Atkins26 April 1950
RR/73/124Letter 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
RR/73/210Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The paramagnetic resonance spectra of two salts of manganese' by Brebis Bleaney and D J E Ingram10 October 1950
RR/75/57Referee's report by John Walter Ryde, on a paper 'Paramagnetic resonance and hyperfine structure in four cobalt salts' by Brebis Bleaney and D J E Ingram19 March 1951
RR/73/143Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'Paramagnetic resonance spectra of five chromic sulphate alums at low temperatures' by Brebis Bleaney28 June 1950
RR/79/47Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'A nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of three solid benzenes' by Edward Raymond Andrew and R G Eades17 March 1953
RR/77/242Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'The antiferromagnetic properties of mixed cobalt and manganese oxides' by G E Bacon, R Street and R H Tredgold18 December 1952
RR/79/204Letter from Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'The phase transition in superconductors. III. Phase propagation below the critical field' by T E Faber, to David Christie Martin, the Royal Society16 November 1953
RR/79/247Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'The paramagnetic spectra of gadolinium and neodymium ethylsulphates' by Brebis Bleaney, H E D Scovil and R S Trenam12 October 1953
RR/79/246Referee's report by Leslie Fleetwood Bates, on a paper 'The paramagnetic spectra of gadolinium and neodymium ethylsulphates' by Brebis Bleaney, H E D Scovil and R S Trenam23 September 1953
RR/77/102Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'Anomalous paramagnetism of copper acetate' by Brebis Bleaney and K D Bowers17 June 1952
RR/73/144Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Thermal properties of potassium chromic alum between 0.05 and 1'K' by Brebis Bleaney28 June 1950
RR/79/244Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'A nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of n-pentane, n-hexane and cyclopentane' by F A Rushworth21 September 1953
RR/77/194Referee's report by Brebis Bleaney, on a paper 'A nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of solid cyclohexane' by Edward Raymond Andrew and R G Eades13 October 1952
RR/79/226Referee's report by John Frank Allen, on a paper 'Experiments on nuclear orientation at very low temperatures. I. Establishment of a method of nuclear alinement and its application to 60Co' by Brebis Bleaney, J M Daniels, Michael Anthony Grace, H Halban, Nicholas Kurti, F N H Robinson and Franz Eugen Simon8 September 1953
RR/79/245Referee's report by Edmund Clifton Stoner, on a paper 'Paramagnetic resonance spectra of some ferric alums and the nuclear magnetic moment of 57Fe' by Brebis Bleaney and R S Trenam5 October 1953
MS/857Scientific notebooks of Brebis Bleaney FRS, physicist1980s-1990s
MDA/N/1/49Correspondence between Brebis Bleaney and the Royal Society 7-15 November 1957
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