George Pickett (physicist) explained

George Richard Pickett
Birth Date:1939 4, df=y
Death Place:Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Workplaces:Lancaster University
Alma Mater:Magdalen College, Oxford
Known For:Low Temperature Physics

George Richard Pickett FRS (10 April 1939 – 21 July 2024) was a British physicist who was Professor of Low Temperature Physics at Lancaster University.[1] [2]

Life and career

Pickett was born on 10 April 1939. He was 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] He died in Lancaster, Lancashire on 21 July 2024, at the age of 85.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: subscription. Pickett, Prof. George Richard, Professor of Low Temperature Physics, University of Lancaster, 1988, now Distinguished Professor. WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30829. 978-0-19-954088-4.
  2. Web site: Professor George Pickett - Physics at Lancaster University. Physics.lancs.ac.uk. 6 October 2014.
  3. Web site: Science and Technology at Lancaster University . Lancaster.ac.uk= . 6 October 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141008202857/http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/news/?article_id=2204 . 8 October 2014 .
  4. Web site: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. Acadsci.fi. 6 October 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141009063143/http://www.acadsci.fi/jasenet/ulkomaiset_jasenet.htm. 9 October 2014.
  5. Web site: Science and Technology at Lancaster University - International Honour for Low Temperature Physicist . Lancaster.ac.uk . 6 October 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141008203002/http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/news/000227/ . 8 October 2014 .
  6. Web site: Simon Memorial Prize: past winners . IOP . 2016-12-15 . 20 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220180053/http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/lt/prize/page_44359.html . dead .
  7. Web site: Slovak Academy of Sciences awards honorary degree to Professor George Pickett . 2024-03-07.
  8. News: George Pickett, physicist whose team achieved the lowest temperature ever recorded – obituary . 13 August 2024 . The Telegraph . 13 August 2024.

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