Harrie Massey
| Harrie Massey | |
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Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1908–1983)
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| Born |
16 May 1908 Invermay, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 27 November 1983 (aged 75) Esher, Surrey |
| Residence | Australia United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions |
Cavendish Laboratory Admiralty Mining Establishment Radiation Laboratory Queen's University of Belfast University College London |
| Alma mater |
University of Melbourne Cambridge University |
| Thesis | The Collision of Material Particles (1932) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ralph Fowler |
| Doctoral students |
Alexander Dalgarno David Robert Bates Ian Sloan Alan Martin Michael Seaton |
| Notable awards |
Hughes Medal (1955) Royal Medal (1958) knight bachelor (1960) |
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey FRS (16 May 1908 – 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.
A graduate of the University of Melbourne and Cambridge University, where he earned his doctorate at the Cavendish Laboratory, Massey became an independent lecturer in Mathematical Physics at the Queen's University of Belfast in 1933. He was appointed Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College London, in 1938. During the Second World War, Massey worked at the Admiralty Research Laboratory , where he helped devise countermeasures for German magnetic naval mines, and at the Admiralty Mining Establishment in Havant, where he helped develop British naval mines. In 1943, Mark Oliphant persuaded the Admiralty to release Massey to work on the Manhattan Project. He joined Oliphant's British Mission at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, where they worked on the electromagnetic isotope separation process. When Oliphant returned to Britain in 1945, Massey took over the Berkeley Mission.
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