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George Richard Pickett
Born(1939-04-10)10 April 1939
Died21 July 2024(2024-07-21) (aged 85)
Lancaster, Lancashire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationBedford Modern School
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
Known forLow Temperature Physics
Scientific career
InstitutionsLancaster University

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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Pickett, Prof. George Richard, Professor of Low Temperature Physics, University of Lancaster, 1988, now Distinguished Professor". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30829. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.
  2. ^ "Professor George Pickett - Physics at Lancaster University". Physics.lancs.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Science and Technology at Lancaster University". Lancaster.ac.uk=. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia". Acadsci.fi. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  5. ^ "Science and Technology at Lancaster University - International Honour for Low Temperature Physicist". Lancaster.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Simon Memorial Prize: past winners". IOP. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Slovak Academy of Sciences awards honorary degree to Professor George Pickett". Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  8. ^ "George Pickett, physicist whose team achieved the lowest temperature ever recorded – obituary". The Telegraph. 13 August 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
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