| Authorised form of name | Pease; Rendel Sebastian (1922 - 2004) |
| Other forms of name | Bas |
| Dates | 1922 - 2004 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Cambridge |
| Date of birth | 02/11/1922 |
| Place of death | Oxford |
| Date of death | 17/10/2004 |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Research field | Atomic physics |
| Activity | 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. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1977 |
| Age at election | 54 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1985-1987; VP 1986-1987 |
| Relationships | 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 |
| Source | 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] |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/191728498 |
| Code | NA393 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/003476 | Pease, Rendel Sebastian | nd |
| IM/003477 | Pease, Rendel Sebastian | nd |
| EC/1977/27 | Pease, Rendel Sebastian: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1976 |
| HWT/24/6/25 | Correspondence regarding exchanges and joint research projects including British proposal for collaboration in computer application to fluid flow | March - April 1971 |