Retro Unit
Nuclear Physics An Introduction by W.E. Burcham 1967
Nuclear Physics An Introduction by W.E. Burcham 1967
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Australian Seller!William Ernest Burcham CBE 1 August 1913 — 5 November 2008 Elected FRS 1957 By J. D. Dowell FRS, J. A. R. Griffith and W. F. Vinen FRS School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK William Ernest Burcham, known almost always as Bill, was an experimental nuclear physicist whose research was chiefly concerned with nuclear reactions and with radioactive β-decay. As an undergraduate, research student and postdoctoral student he worked in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge during the last few years of Lord Rutherford’s life. During World War II he was one of those who pioneered the use of centimetre wavelengths in airborne radar. As a university teacher after the war, first in Cambridge and then in Birmingham, he helped for more than 30 years to re-establish nuclear studies as an academic discipline in the UK. Early life Bill Burcham was born in 1913 in Wymondham in Norfolk. His father, Ernest Burcham, was a booking clerk at Wymondham station of the Great Eastern Railway, and his mother, Edith (née Pitcher), had been an assistant in the post office in the town. His grandfather, William Burcham, was a farmer and cattle dealer in South Norfolk. Both Bill’s parents left school at the age of 14 years. Bill’s father might well have gone into farming, but it seems that he may have been encouraged by Bill’s grandfather to take up clerical work, in which he proved conscientious and efficient. As a railway employee, Bill’s father was exempt from military service during World War I, and in 1916 he became a relief booking clerk based at Thorpe Station in Norwich, a city in which Bill lived until he went to university. Bill had one brother, Jack, born in 1920, who studied physics at Birkbeck College and became an experimental officer at the Culham Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Authority, and who died in 1985. Apart from his brother no member of Bill’s family exhibited noticeable scientific ability, although for many of them their limited educational opportunities would hardly have allowed it.
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