Paul Taunton Matthews

Paul Taunton Matthews
Born	19 November 1919 (1919-11-19) Erode, Tamil Nadu, British India Present-day India
Died	26 February 1987(1987-02-26) (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 students	Faheem Hussain
Other notable students	Abdus Salam
Notable awards	Order of the British Empire Royal Society Adams Prize Rutherford Medal and Prize
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 (19 November 1919–26 February 1987) was a British theoretical physicist.

He was born in Erode in India. He was awarded the Adams Prize in 1958, elected to the Royal Society in 1963, 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 chairman of the Nuclear Physics Board of the Science Research Council.

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

Bibliography

• Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, McGraw–Hill, 3 editions – 1963, 1968, 1974
• The nuclear apple: recent discoveries in fundamental physics, Chatto and Windus, 1971

References

• T.W.B. Kibble (December 1988). "Paul Taunton Matthews. 19 November 1919–26 February 1987". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society. p. 555–580. http://www.jstor.org/stable/770061. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 

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Academic offices
Preceded by Leonard Rotherham	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath 1976-1983	Succeeded by John Rodney Quayle