1. Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS was a British nuclear physicist.
12 Facts About Denys Wilkinson
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Denys Wilkinson was born on 5 September 1922 in Leeds, Yorkshire and educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1943.
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Denys Wilkinson was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
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In 2001 the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Oxford, which he had helped to create, was renamed the Denys Wilkinson Building in his honour.
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Denys Wilkinson served as chairman for both the Physics III Committee and the Electronic Experiments Committee at CERN.
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Denys Wilkinson was amongst the first to experimentally test rules relating to isospin.
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Denys Wilkinson applied concepts from physics to the study of bird navigation.
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Denys Wilkinson is notable for the invention of the Wilkinson analog-to-digital converter, to support his experimental work.
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Denys Wilkinson died on 22 April 2016 at the age of 93.
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Denys Wilkinson's papers are held at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge.
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Denys Wilkinson was an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1961, and an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford from 1979.
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Denys Wilkinson won the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 1965 and the Royal Medal in 1980.