Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers
Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS (* September 13, 1924, † 25 June 2010) was a British physicist who dealt with nuclear physics.
Life
Brian Hilton Flowers is the son of Reverend Harold Joseph Flowers, he attended Bishop Gore Grammar School in Swansea and the Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which he left with a Master of Arts ( Oxbridge ). He continued his studies continued at the University of Birmingham and ended it there as a Doctor of Science.
Flowers worked from 1944 to 1946 at the British- Canadian nuclear project codenamed Tube Alloys in Chalk River, Ontario, to which it recruited John Cockcroft. He conducted research from 1946 to 1950 on nuclear physics and nuclear energy in the British atomic research center Atomic Energy Research Establishment ( AERE ) near Harwell in Oxfordshire. There he first worked in the group of Otto Frisch and then in the theory group of Klaus Fuchs. After his arrest in 1950 as a spy Flowers went to Rudolf Peierls at the University of Birmingham. In 1952 he was appointed Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the AERE as the successor of fox. He held this position until 1958. From 1958 to 1961 he was professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester, 1961 to 1972, he was Langworthy Professor of Physics, 1967-1973 and Chairman of the Science Research Council. He was from 1973 to 1985 Rector of Imperial College London, from 1985 to 1990 the Vice-Chancellor. From 1994 to 2001 he was Chancellor of the University of Manchester.
Alls physicist, he dealt primarily with the theory of nuclear structure and nuclear spectroscopy. He attended as head of the theory group at Harwell for close collaboration with experimentalists and carried in collaboration with Phil Elliott and other help, then competing nuclear structure models ( shell model, collective model) to reconcile. 1978 to 1981 he was chairman of the Commission on Energy and the Environment, which expressed itself in their report in 1976 against a major expansion of nuclear energy, as long as the problem of nuclear waste was not solved.
From 1966 to 1970 he was Chairman of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Council, 1971 to 1981, he was one of the UK Atomic Energy Authority at. 1972 to 1974 he was president of the Institute of Physics. From 1973 to 1976 he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1974-1980 President of the European Science Foundation, 1977-1979 President of the National Society for Clean Air From 1979 to 1980 he headed the working group for future medical and dental education the University of London. From 1983 to 1985 he was Chairman of the Commission, the Vice -Chancellor and university leaders. From 1988 to 1991 he was a member of the Academia Europaea Assembly from 1992 to 2001 he was governor of the University of Middlesex. In the years 1992 and 1993 he was chairman of the Examination Board for the academic year. From 1990 to 1997 he belonged to the Council of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School as its vice chairman. From 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the Management Board of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, in 1994 and 1995 as its chairman. From 1982 to 1998 he was a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, in 1987 as its chairman. Since 1998 he was Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST).
Flowers belonged since February 20, 1979 to the House of Lords as a life peer (Cross Bencher ).
Honors
Since 1961 he was a member as a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1969 he was appointed Knight, he was appointed with the title of Baron Flowers, of Queen 's Gate in the City of Westminster for Life Peer on 20 February 1979. Since 1981 he was an officer of the French Legion of Honour.
Family
He was married to Mary Frances Behrens since 1951 and had two stepsons.
Works (excerpt)
- Properties of Matter ( 1970)
- An Introduction to Numerical Methods C ( 1995)