1. Eric Fawcett, was a professor of physics at the University of Toronto for 23 years.
10 Facts About Eric Fawcett
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Two years later Eric Fawcett returned to England, where he worked at the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern.
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Besides first observing cyclotron resonance in metals, Eric Fawcett is credited with discovering the Hall effect in type-II superconductors.
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KGB agents were all around and Eric Fawcett later admitted he was often fearful for his own safety.
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Eric Fawcett felt that NATO's militaristic foreign policy was contrary to its ostensibly peaceful objective.
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Eric Fawcett publicly expressed shame over Canada's role in the massacres of East Timor.
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Eric Fawcett was the co-founder of Science for Peace, a group dedicated towards the goal of universal peace.
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Eric Fawcett's name is carried on by the biannual Eric Fawcett Memorial Forum hosted by Science for Peace.
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Eric Fawcett was the second son to Harold and Florrie Eric Fawcett, the younger brother of Roy.
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In September 1961 the family relocated to New Jersey, where they lived for ten years before moving north to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1971, where Eric Fawcett would spend the rest of his life.