George Richard Pickett | |
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Nationality | British |
Education | Bedford Modern School |
Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Known for | Low Temperature Physics |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Lancaster University |
George Richard Pickett FRS (born 1939) is Professor of Low Temperature Physics at Lancaster University.[1][2]
Pickett was born in 1939 and 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]