Patrick Blackett

Also known as Patrick Maynard Blackett, Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

British physicist (1897-1974)

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Patrick Blackett was a British physicist who made important contributions to nuclear physics and other scientific fields during the 20th century. His work helped advance our understanding of atomic particles and earned him recognition as one of the significant scientists of his era.

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Born: 1897
Died: 1974
Works: 46

Top works

The atom and the charter
The gap widens
Fear, war and the bomb
Technology and world advancement
Atomic weapons and east-west relations

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5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,587x
The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,805x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,819x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,519x

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Commons category: Patrick Blackett
date of birth: 1897-11-18
date of death: 1974-07-13
name in native language: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett
P8168: MS Express Samina
P12749: Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

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Giuseppe Occhialini and Blackett (right), 1932 or 1933

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974), was a British experimental physicist and life peer who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1925, he was the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another. He also made major contributions to the Allied war effort in World War II, advising on military strategy and developing operational research.