Rendel Sebastian "Bas" Pease FRS was a British physicist who strongly opposed nuclear weapons while advocating the use of nuclear fusion as a clean source of power.
10 Facts About Bas Pease
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Bas Pease's father was the geneticist Michael Pease, son of Edward Reynolds Pease.
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Bas Pease's mother was Helen Bowen Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood IV.
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Bas Pease was the four times great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood.
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Until he was about 11 years old, Pease was taught at home, mainly by his mother; he then went to Bedales School, from where he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1940, but his studies in natural sciences were interrupted in 1942 by the war; he was able to resume them in 1946 and gained a 2 in Physics the following year.
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Bas Pease was part of a team of 30 working on Operation Glimmer, a scheme to convince the Germans that Britain was planning a landing at the mouth of the Pas de Calais.
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In 1961 Bas Pease was appointed as a Division Head at the Culham Laboratory, responsible for the work of the Controlled Thermonuclear Research Division; in 1968 he became the director of Culham.
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Bas Pease encouraged work on the design of a Large Tokamak and, in so doing, became involved in a European Community project to build a Large European Tokamak, which later developed into the Joint European Torus experiment.
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Rendel Bas Pease married Susan Spickernell, daughter of Captain Sir Frank Todd Spickernell, at one time Gentleman Usher to the Royal household, and Amice Ivy Delves Broughton, on 9 August 1952.
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On 4 April 1998 Bas Pease married Jean Frances White, a retired personnel officer but she died two years later.