Brebis Bleaney

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Brebis Bleaney
Low-temperature physics
InstitutionsClarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
ThesisSome properties of matter at very low temperatures (1939)
Doctoral advisorFrancis Simon[1]
Doctoral studentsGeoffrey Copland[2]

Brebis Bleaney

British physicist.[4][5][6][7] His main area of research was the use of microwave techniques to study the magnetic properties of solids. He was head of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford from 1957 to 1977. In 1992, Bleaney received the International Zavoisky Award "for his contribution to the theory and practice of electron paramagnetic resonance
of transition ions in crystals."

Education

Brebis Bleaney was born at 423

DPhil degree in 1939.[1]

Career and research

After his DPhil degree, Bleaney moved into the new Clarendon Laboratory but then came the war and, like so many other scientists, he was assigned to war-related work. In Bleaney's case, he was drafted into the Oxford-based Admiralty team which worked on the development of microwave techniques for radar. He made many contributions to this programme, particularly in the development of klystrons.[10]

In 1943, the group was visited by

Raytheon manufacturing them on a large scale.[3]

In 1945, Bleaney was appointed as a university

low temperatures resulted in Oxford becoming "the major world centre for research in EPR”.[12]

Awards and honours

In 1950, Bleaney was elected a

Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1965 and became a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1974. He won the Royal Society's Hughes Medal in 1962 and the European Holdwek Medal
in 1984.

Bleaney was considered for the

Nobel Prize for Physics regarding two separate achievements but never received the award.[13] However, there is an annual Brebis Bleaney Memorial Lecture at the Department of Physics in Oxford, established in 2019 and endowed by his student Professor Michael Baker (1930–2017).[14]

Personal life

In 1949, Brebis Bleaney married Betty Isabelle Plumpton at

Clarendon Press, 1957). The couple had two children, Michael Bleaney, now a noted economist, and Carol Heather Bleaney, who was at SOAS University of London and has published widely on the Middle East.[citation needed
]

Bleaney died on 4 November 2006 at his home, Garford House, Garford Road, Oxford, and was cremated at Oxford crematorium.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Bleaney, Brebis (1939). Some properties of matter at very low temperatures. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  2. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.732014
    .
  3. ^
    S2CID 72415129
    .
  4. ^ "Professor Brebis Bleaney". The Daily Telegraph. UK. 30 November 2006.
  5. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U7843. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  6. Archive.org. UK: Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Archived from the original
    on 14 February 2007. Retrieved 14 February 2007.
  7. Archive.org. Russia: Zavoisky Physical Technical Institute. Archived from the original
    on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2007.
  8. ^ "Planning Statement for the site at Former Jamahiriya School, Glebe Place, Chelsea" (PDF). April 2006.
  9. doi:10.1039/TF9393501205
    .
  10. ^ Elliott, Roger (8 January 2007). "Obituary: Brebis Bleaney". The Guardian.
  11. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97490. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  12. ^ Hayes, W. (30 November 2006). "Obituaries: Professor Brebis Bleaney". The Independent. London.
  13. ^ Baker, Timothy (16 March 2021). "Brebis Bleaney: His name, and his Nobel near-misses". UK: Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  14. ^ Crowder, Valeria (25 March 2019). "The Inaugural Brebis Bleaney Memorial Lecture". UK: Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  15. The Tatler
    . 30 March 1949. p. 28.

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