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Authorised form of nameKibble; Thomas Walter Bannerman (1932 - 2016); Sir
Dates1932 - 2016
NationalityBritish
Place of birthMadras, India
Date of birth23/12/1932
Place of death.USA
Date of death02/06/2016
ActivityEducation
Doveton-Corrie School Madras, (1941-43); Melville College Ediinburgh (1944-51); University of Edinburgh (1951-58), MA 1st class honours Maths and Natural Philosophy 1955, B.Sc. 1st class honours 1956, Ph.D. Mathematical Physics 1958.
Career:
Commonwealth Fund Fellow, California Instiotute of Technology, 1958-9; NATO Fellow, Imperial Colege of Science adn Technology, London 1959-60; Lecturer in Pysics, Imperial College, 1961-65; Senior Lecturer in Physics 1965-66; Reader in ~Theoretical Physics, Imperial College 1966-70; Senior Visiting Research Associate, Department of Pysics, University of Rocherster, Rochester, New York 1967-68; Professor of Theiretical Physics, Imperial College 1970-1998; Head of Department of Physics, Imperial College 1983-1991; EPSRC Visitiong Scientist, Isaac Newton Insitute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge 1994; Emereitus Professor of Theiretical Physics and Senior Research Fellow, Imperial Colege 1998 - ; Senior Visiting Scientist, Tufts University, Medford MA, 2001; Lorentz Professor, University of Leiden, Netherlands, 2007;

Honours:
CBE 1998; Queen's Birthday Honours, Knights Batchelor - Knighthood, 2013 for services to physics;
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/03/1980
Age at election47
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1987-1989; VP 1988-1989
Medals and prizes:
Hughes Medal 1981 ; Royal A Medal (A-side) 2012
RelationshipsMarried Anne Allan, 6 July 1957, Died 3 April 2005; children Helen born 1960, Alison born 1963, Robert born 1969.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/39457985
CodeNA4165
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1980/19Kibble, Thomas Walter Bannerman: certificate of election to the Royal Society1974
IM/GA/GRS/8195Kibble, Thomas Walter Bannerman1980
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