Philip Dee
Philip ( Ivor ) Dee ( born April 8, 1904 in King's Cross, Stroud District, † 17 April 1983) was a British physicist.
He studied at Sidney College and Pembroke College and worked in the 1930s as a research assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory, and from 1934 to 1943 as a lecturer in Physics.
During the war he led a team of scientists, the new airborne radars codenamed Village Inn developed. On 26 October 1941 he had finished the H2S. 1943, the OBE in 1946 and he was awarded the CBE (third and fourth stage of the Order of the British Empire ).
1943 Dee was appointed to the Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. In 1946, he reached a state funding for the construction of a 30 MeV electron synchrotron at the University for research in particle physics. Two year later, a 300 MeV version was built.
In 1952 he won the Hughes Medal for his outstanding studies on the decay of atomic nuclei, in particular the use of the Wilson cloud chamber technique. In 1972, he retired in 1980 and got an honorary doctorate from the University of Strathclyde give.