Alan Nunn May
British physicist and Soviet spy
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alan Nunn May was a British physicist and a confessed and convicted Soviet spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic research to the Soviet Union during World War II. Early life and education May was the youngest of four children of Walter Frederick Nunn May, a brassfounder, and Mary Annie, née Kendall. He was born in Bedruthan, Park Hill, Moseley, Birmingham, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. As a scholarship student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he achieved a first in physics, which led to doctoral studies under Charles Ellis and lectureship at King's College London.
Alan Nunn May's Published Works
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- A Model of Metal Fatigue (1960) (62)
- The (4n+1) Radioactive Series (1947) (46)
- Fatigue under Random Loads (1961) (33)
- Atmospheric Gravity Waves to be Expected from the Solar Eclipse of June 30, 1973 (1972) (25)
- Random Slip Model of Fatigue and Coffin's Law (1960) (24)
- An investigation of the scattering of high-energy particles from the cyclotron by the photographic method, I. The experimental method (1944) (14)
- The scattering of 4·2 MeV protons by deuterium, helium and other light elements (1947) (11)
- Excited States of Stable Nuclei (1940) (9)
- The extinction of discharges in Geiger-Muller counters (1939) (7)
- Measurement of the longitudinal piezo-thermoelectric effect in polycrystalline wires of the noble metals (1973) (5)
- The mechanism of the geiger counter (1938) (5)
- Evidence for an (eta, alpha) reaction induced in O17 by thermal neutrons. (1947) (5)
- The disintegration of boron by α-particles (1934) (5)
- The scattering of 4.2 MeV protons by protons (1947) (4)
- Attempt to detect an (n,2n) reaction in deuterium. (1948) (4)
- The Energy Levels of Some Light Nuclei (1936) (4)
- The conservation of energy and momentum in elementary processes (1936) (3)
- The Beta-Ray Disintegration (1937) (2)
- Variations on an enigma (1987) (1)
- The application of measurement instrumentation to the determination of stresses encountered in rocks surrounding underground openings (1959) (1)
- Instruments to measure the stress conditions existing in the rocks surrounding underground openings (1959) (0)
- The Atomic nature of Matter (1970) (0)
- Progress report on the work carried out in the iron ore mines of Dominion Wabana Ore Ltd., Bell Island, Newfoundland April, 1955- January 1958 (1958) (0)
- Determination of stresses in the solid by means of a hollow inclusion (1959) (0)
- Stressmeter trials at the Canadian Refractories Limited Mine, Kilmar, Quebec; method of locating and prestressing stressmeteres at the end of a borehole (1959) (0)
- Enigmatic reprise (1987) (0)
- The application of photstress techniques to underground stress determinations (1958) (0)
- Determination of stresses in the solid (1958) (0)
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