Paul Taunton Matthews

Paul Taunton Matthews
Born	19 November 1919 Erode, Tamil Nadu, British India (present-day India)
Died	26 February 1987 (aged 67) Cambridge, U.K.
Residence	Cambridge, United Kingdom
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Fields	Theoretical Physics
Institutions	Imperial College London University of Bath Science and Engineering Research Council
Alma mater	Imperial College London
Doctoral advisor	Nicholas Kemmer
Doctoral students	Faheem Hussain Christopher Isham
Other notable students	Abdus Salam Stanley Mandelstam
Notable awards	Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Adams Prize (1958) Rutherford Medal and Prize (1978)
Notes
A close friend and mentor of the only Pakistani Nobel Prize holder, Dr. Abdus Salam, and of CERN physicist, Faheem Hussain.

Paul Taunton Matthews CBE FRS^[1] (19 November 1919 – 26 February 1987) was a British theoretical physicist.^[2][3][4]

Biography

Matthews was born in Erode in British India. He was awarded the Adams Prize in 1958, elected to the Royal Society in 1963,^[1] and awarded the Rutherford Medal and Prize in 1978. He became head of the Physics Department of Imperial College, London and later vice chancellor of the University of Bath. He was also awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath in 1983. He was also chairman of the Nuclear Physics Board of the Science Research Council.

He died in Cambridge from injuries sustained in a cycling accident.

References

1. Kibble, T. W. B. (1988). "Paul Taunton Matthews. 19 November 1919-26 February 1987". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 34: 554–526. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1988.0018. JSTOR 770061.
2. Matthews, P. T. (1971). The nuclear apple: recent discoveries in fundamental physics. London: Chatto and Windus. ISBN 0-7011-1709-5.
3. Matthews, Paul T. (1974). Introduction to quantum mechanics. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-084036-9.
4. Salam, Abdus (October 1987). "Obituary: Paul Matthews". Physics Today. 40 (10): 142–146. Bibcode:1987PhT....40j.142S. doi:10.1063/1.2820245.

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