1. Nicholas Kemmer's family moved to Germany in 1922, where he was educated at Bismarckschule Hanover and then at the University of Gottingen.
13 Facts About Nicholas Kemmer
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Nicholas Kemmer received his doctorate in nuclear physics at the University of Zurich and worked as an assistant to Wolfgang Pauli, who had to give strong arguments in 1936, before being allowed to employ a non-Swiss national.
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Later on, Kemmer moved to the Beit Fellowship at Imperial College London.
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Nicholas Kemmer moved to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1940 to work on Tube Alloys, the wartime atomic energy project.
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In 1940, when Egon Bretscher and Norman Feather showed that a slow neutron reactor fuelled with uranium would in theory produce substantial amounts of plutonium-239 as a by-product, Nicholas Kemmer proposed the names Neptunium for the new element 93 and Plutonium for 94 by analogy with the outer planets Neptune and Pluto beyond Uranus.
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Nicholas Kemmer founded the Tait Institute of Mathematical Physics in 1955 and taught at Edinburgh until 1979.
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Nicholas Kemmer was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1954.
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Nicholas Kemmer's proposers were Norman Feather, Max Born, Sir Edmund Whittaker and Alexander Aitken.
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Nicholas Kemmer served as the Society's Vice-President from 1971 to 1974.
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Nicholas Kemmer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956 and won its Hughes Medal in 1966.
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Nicholas Kemmer was awarded the J Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize in 1975.
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Nicholas Kemmer was a mentor and a teacher of the only Pakistani Nobel laureate, Dr Abdus Salam.
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Nicholas Kemmer is credited to trained and work with Salam in Neutron scattering by using relativity equations.