Category:William Penney

**William Penney, Baron Penney**
	English mathematician and physicist (1909-1991)
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Name in native language	William Penney;
Date of birth	24 June 1909; Gibraltar (British Empire); William George Penney
Date of death	3 March 1991; East Hendred
Place of burial	cremation;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom;
Educated at	Royal College of Science (1927–1929); University of Cambridge (1933–1935); University of Groningen (1929–1930); Imperial College London (1930–1931); University of Wisconsin–Madison (1931–1933); Gilberd School;
Doctoral advisor	John Lennard-Jones;
Occupation	politician; physicist; mathematician;
Employer	Imperial College London (1936–1945); Manhattan Project (1944–1945); Atomic Weapons Establishment (1946–1954); United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (1954–1967); Imperial College London (1967–1973);
Member of	Royal Society (1946–); Royal Society of Edinburgh; National Academy of Sciences (Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, 1962–);
Position held	member of the House of Lords (1967–1991); chairperson (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1964–1967); rector (Imperial College London, 1967–1973);
Field of work	nuclear physics;
Work location	London;
Notable work	Particle in a one-dimensional lattice;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society (1946); Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1952); Wilhelm Exner Medal (1967); Rumford Medal (1966); Glazebrook Medal (1969); Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1970); Order of Merit (1969); James Alfred Ewing Medal (1969);
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William G. Penney Los Alamos ID.png 130 × 180; 7 KB
William Penney ID badge.png 130 × 180; 12 KB
William Penney.jpg 493 × 640; 123 KB
William Penney, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls and John Cockroft.jpg 1,200 × 885; 213 KB
Bud Uanna A TEAM INTELLIGENTSIA Tinian p.1.jpg 3,510 × 2,550; 1.36 MB
Group portrait of Los Alamos Laboratory employees in a Ford Deluxe.jpg 3,000 × 2,403; 3.52 MB
Penney and Torlesse during Operation Hurricane.jpg 2,314 × 1,478; 396 KB
Project Alberta.jpg 2,870 × 2,309; 867 KB
William G. Penney Los Alamos badge photo.jpg 3,239 × 4,347; 3.75 MB
William Penney portrait.jpg 396 × 640; 96 KB

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