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Patrick Blackett, (born November 18, 1897, London, England—died July 13, 1974, London), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948 for his discoveries in the field of cosmic rays, which he accomplished primarily with cloud-chamber photographs that revealed the way in which a stable atomic nucleus can be disintegrated by bombarding it with ...

XV Patrick Blackett (X01) is an experimental ship used by the Royal Navy as a testbed for new technologies, including unmanned underwater vehicles, unmanned surface vehicles and quantum navigation. Her namesake is Patrick Blackett , a Royal Navy veteran and Nobel Prize -winning British physicist.

Patrick Blackett (1897-1974) was an accomplished British scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948. Early Years. Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett was born in Kensington, London on November 18 th, 1897. He entered the Osborne Royal Naval College in 1910, and transferred to the Dartmouth Royal Naval College two years later.

Blackett was awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society in 1940 and the American Medal for Merit, for operational research work in connection with the U-boat campaign, in 1946. He is the author of Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy (1948; revised edition 1949; American edition Fear, War, and the Bomb , 1949).

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948. Born: 18 November 1897, London, United Kingdom. Died: 13 July 1974, London, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: Victoria University, Manchester, United Kingdom.