Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop, FRS (31 January 1911 – 22 January 1980) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian.A graduate of the University of Melbourne, Burhop was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship to study at the Cavendish Laboratory under Lord Rutherford. Under the supervision of Mark Oliphant, he investigated nuclear fusion. He produced a non-relativistic theory of the Auger effect in 1935, followed by a relativistic treatment the following year. He later wrote a monograph on the subject. He returned to the University of Melbourne as a lecturer in 1936, and helped Professor Thomas Laby build up the physics department there.During the Second World War he worked in the Radiophysics Laboratory in Sydney, where he produced a laboratory model of a cavity magnetron. In September 1942, he returned to Melbourne as the officer in charge of the Radar Research Laboratory, where he continued the development of cavity magnetrons and reflex klystrons for radar sets. In May 1944, he became one of three Australian physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bombs.In early 1945, Massey offered Burhop a position as a lecturer in the Mathematics Department at University College, London. He fostered international cooperation in nuclear physics. As part of a five-nation study of K mesons and their interaction with atomic nuclei that went on for several years, his group produced a wealth of new results, including the first observation of a double lambda hypernucleus. He spent a year on secondment to CERN, as secretary of a committee that recommended the construction of the Intersecting Storage Rings and the Super Proton Synchrotron. In 1974 and 1975, an international team under his leadership carried out a successful search for the Λ+c (charmed lambda baryon)."@en }
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- Eric_Burhop abstract "Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop, FRS (31 January 1911 – 22 January 1980) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian.A graduate of the University of Melbourne, Burhop was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship to study at the Cavendish Laboratory under Lord Rutherford. Under the supervision of Mark Oliphant, he investigated nuclear fusion. He produced a non-relativistic theory of the Auger effect in 1935, followed by a relativistic treatment the following year. He later wrote a monograph on the subject. He returned to the University of Melbourne as a lecturer in 1936, and helped Professor Thomas Laby build up the physics department there.During the Second World War he worked in the Radiophysics Laboratory in Sydney, where he produced a laboratory model of a cavity magnetron. In September 1942, he returned to Melbourne as the officer in charge of the Radar Research Laboratory, where he continued the development of cavity magnetrons and reflex klystrons for radar sets. In May 1944, he became one of three Australian physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bombs.In early 1945, Massey offered Burhop a position as a lecturer in the Mathematics Department at University College, London. He fostered international cooperation in nuclear physics. As part of a five-nation study of K mesons and their interaction with atomic nuclei that went on for several years, his group produced a wealth of new results, including the first observation of a double lambda hypernucleus. He spent a year on secondment to CERN, as secretary of a committee that recommended the construction of the Intersecting Storage Rings and the Super Proton Synchrotron. In 1974 and 1975, an international team under his leadership carried out a successful search for the Λ+c (charmed lambda baryon).".