Moses Blackman FRS was a South African-born British crystallographer.
12 Facts About Moses Blackman
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When matriculating in 1925 Moses Blackman gained the only scholarship to nearby Rhodes University, where he concentrated on physics, mathematics, applied mathematics and German.
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Moses Blackman continued with an MSc in physics, again being awarded a first.
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Moses Blackman then spent a year as a demonstrator, building up his funds, before following his teachers' advice and moving to the University of Gottingen in March 1931.
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Moses Blackman then succeeded in obtaining an industrial research senior research award from the DSIR, enabling him to undertake research in Cambridge and register for a third doctorate.
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Moses Blackman worked on the detail of the Born-von Karman crystal lattice, resulting in another PhD.
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Moses Blackman was very soon invited back to Imperial College by George Thomson.
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Moses Blackman joined the Physics Department as an assistant lecturer in 1937, and was seen as the theoretical physicist of the department.
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Moses Blackman was one of several people involved, and contributed by making theoretical calculations concerned with neutron diffusion.
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Moses Blackman was appointed to a personal chair in electron physics at Imperial College in 1959, and elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1962.
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Moses Blackman retired in 1976, but was appointed a Senior Research Fellow.
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Moses Blackman married Anne Olivia Warburton, a former stenographer from Sydney, in 1959.