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DR. J. ROTBLAT, who has recently been appointed to succeed Prof. E. L. Hopwood in the chair of physics at St. Baratholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, Polish by birth and was educated in Warsaw, graduating at the Free University of poland His first research was on the properties of gases at low pressures, but he soon turned to nuclear physics, working under the direction of Prof. Werten-stein. In 1936 he was awarded the degree of doctor of physics and became assistant director in the Department of Atomic Physics, in the development of which he took an active part. Dr. Rotblat came to Great Britain in the spring of 1939, to work in nuclear physics at Liverpool, where, except for a period of war work in the United States, he has since remained. From the beginning of the War, he took an ever increasing part in the work of the Physics Department at Liverpool, showing outstanding ability in teaching as well as in research. He made valuable contributions to the development of atomic energy in Great Britain, by his own work and by his leadership of a research group. His administrative capacity has been shown in his work as chairman of panels of the Nuclear Physics Committee, one for the promotion of the photographic emulsion technique and the other for the co-ordination of work on new cyclotrons; above all, perhaps, in his work on the Atom Train Exhibition, the success of which was largely due to him. In the past two years Dr. Rot-blat's research interest has turned towards the medical applications of physics, more especially the use of radioactive isotopes, a line of work which should find ample scope for development in his new post.
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Physics at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College: Prof. J. Rotblat. Nature 164, 647 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164647a0
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