Paul Taunton Matthews

Paul Taunton Matthews
Paul Taunton Matthews
Born 19 November 1919 (1919-11-19)
Erode, Tamil Nadu, British India Present-day India
Died 26 February 1987(1987-02-26) (aged 67)
Cambridge, U.K.
Residence Cambridge, United Kingdom
Citizenship United Kingdom
Nationality British
Fields Theoretical Physics
Institutions Imperial College London
University of Bath
Science and Engineering Research Council
Alma mater Imperial College London
Doctoral students Faheem Hussain
Other notable students Abdus Salam
Notable awards Order of the British Empire
Royal Society
Adams Prize
Rutherford Medal and Prize
Notes
A close friend and mentor of the only Pakistani Nobel Prize holder, Dr. Abdus Salam, and of CERN physicist, Faheem Hussain.

Paul Taunton Matthews CBE FRS (19 November 1919–26 February 1987) was a British theoretical physicist.

He was born in Erode in India. He was awarded the Adams Prize in 1958, elected to the Royal Society in 1963, and awarded the Rutherford Medal and Prize in 1978. He became head of the Physics Department of Imperial College, London and later vice chancellor of the University of Bath. He was also chairman of the Nuclear Physics Board of the Science Research Council.

He died in Cambridge from injuries sustained in a cycling accident.

Bibliography

  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, McGraw–Hill, 3 editions – 1963, 1968, 1974[1]
  • The nuclear apple: recent discoveries in fundamental physics, Chatto and Windus, 1971

References

Notes

  1. ^ "P. T. Matthews". Open Library. http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1982311A/P.-T.-Matthews. Retrieved 2009-08-23. 
Academic offices
Preceded by
Leonard Rotherham
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath
1976-1983
Succeeded by
John Rodney Quayle

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