George Pickett (physicist)

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George Richard Pickett
Nationality British
Education Bedford Modern School
Alma mater Magdalen College, Oxford
Known for Low Temperature Physics
Scientific career
Institutions Lancaster University

George Richard Pickett FRS (born 1939) is Professor of Low Temperature Physics at Lancaster University. [1] [2]

Life

Pickett was born in 1939 and educated at Bedford Modern School and Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 1962; DPhil). [1]

Pickett was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and then Head of the Department of Physics at Lancaster University. [1] In the 1996 Nobel Prize citation of physicist David Lee, credit was given to Pickett and his research group for their work on 3He. [3]

In 1988, Pickett was elected a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. [4] In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society [1] and in 2006 a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. [5] In 1998 he was awarded the Simon Memorial Prize. [6] In 2023 he was awarded an honorary degree by the Slovak Academy of Sciences. [7]

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