Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth
Lord Penney
* 1909 Gibraltar
+ 1991 East Hendred, Oxfordshire/UK
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William George Penney, Baron Penney, was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics
at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College.
He had a leading role in the development of Britain's nuclear programme,
a clandestine programme started in 1942 during World War II
which produced the first British atomic bomb in 1952.
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