![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In October that year he became a sub-lieutenant on HMS P17 on Dover patrol, and in July 1917 he was posted to HMS Sturgeon in the Harwich Force under Admiral Tyrwhitt. In 1916 he applied to join the RNAS but his application was refused. While on HMS Barham, Blackett was co-inventor of a gunnery device on which the Admiralty took out a patent. He was then transferred to HMS Barham and saw much action at the Battle of Jutland. He was transferred to the Cape Verde Islands on HMS Carnarvon and was present at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. In August 1914 on the outbreak of World War I Blackett was assigned to active service as a midshipman. He was accepted and spent two years there before moving on to Dartmouth where he was "usually head of his class". When he went for interview for entrance to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, Isle of Wight, Charles Rolls had completed his cross-channel flight the previous day and Blackett who had tracked the flight on his crystal set was able to expound lengthily on the subject. His main hobbies were model aeroplanes and crystal radio. The Blackett family lived successively at Kensington, Kenley, Woking and Guildford, Surrey, where Blackett went to preparatory school. His maternal grandfather Charles Maynard was an officer in the Royal Artillery at the time of the Indian Mutiny. Henry Blackett, brother of Edmund Blacket the Australian architect, was for many years vicar of Croydon. His younger sister was the psychoanalyst Marion Milner. Early life and education īlackett was born in Kensington, London, the son of Arthur Stuart Blackett, a stockbroker, and his wife Caroline Maynard. ![]() His views saw an outlet in third world development and in influencing policy in the Labour government of the 1960s. He also made a major contribution in World War II advising on military strategy and developing operational research. In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another. Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. ![]()
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