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Aston University (abbreviated as Aston for post-nominals) is a public university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first college of advanced technology in 1956. [6] Aston University received its royal charter from Queen Elizabeth II on 22 ...
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was an English physicist who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics. [7] In 1925, he was the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another. [ 8 ]
Isabel Mary Houston (née Blackett, 1864–1953) was a New Zealand woman artist, who exhibited at the Canterbury Society of Arts, the Fine Arts Association, Wellington, and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. She was the daughter of Engineer-in-Chief for New Zealand, John Blackett.
The Blackett Laboratory is part of the Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences and has housed the Department of Physics at Imperial College London since its completion in 1961. [3] Named after experimental physicist Patrick Blackett who established a laboratory at the college, [ 4 ] the building is located on the corner of Prince Consort ...
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During early 1961, Blackett chairman Mr C. K. Rudkin-Jones pursued the purchase of Gorringes Department Store in London, losing out to a joint bid by the Gresham Trust and Charles Neale Investments. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1963, the Blacketts group of stores was purchased by fellow department store group Hide & Co. [ 8 ]
Vice-chancellors of Aston University (4 P) Pages in category "People associated with Aston University" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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