Professor Nicholas Kurti
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Physicist Nicholas Kurti undertook undergraduate studies in Paris, France, and graduate work in Berlin, Germany. He moved to Oxford, England, in 1933 and began his work on magnetic cooling. During the second world war, he made significant contributions towards the problem of separating the isotopes of uranium, a key element in the subsequent construction of the atom bomb. After the second world war, he focused on the very bottom of the temperature scale, investigating the millionths-of-a-degree-above-Absolute-Zero regime.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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L.F. Lamerton
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Biophysicist Leonard Lamerton studied at the University College of Southampton, England, and joined the physics group at the Royal Cancer Hospital in London, England, in 1938. He undertook operational research with the RAF before returning to the Physics Dept at the Royal Cancer Hospital. He began research in the field of radiation biology. He was appointed to the Chair of Professor of Biophysics Applied to Medicine at London University's Institute of Cancer Research in 1960.
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Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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