Penney

William George Penney

Born: 24 June 1909 in Gibraltar
Died: 3 March 1991 in East Hendred (near London), England

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Penney studied at the University of London and obtained a doctorate from Cambridge in 1935. He then taught at Imperial College London from 1936 to 1945. In 1944-45 he worked on the USA atomic bomb project at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico.

Returning to England he worked on the British atomic bomb project, saw the project through to the test of the first bomb in 1952, then became director of atomic-weapons research and development at Aldermaston.

References:

  1. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. L Rotherham, Lord Penney : the last of the three atomic knights : death of Bill Penney on the 3rd March ... Leonard Rotherham pays tribute ...., Atom : monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 412 (1991).
  3. Obituary, Yearbook of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Session 1990-91 (1992), 37-39. 
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