John Riley Holt
British physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Riley Holt, FRS was an English experimental physicist who played a part in the development of the atom bomb and later became one of the pioneers of elementary particle physics research. Early life and education Holt was born in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, in 1918, his father being a worker in a boat-building yard, and his mother the owner of a bakery and confectionery shop. He was educated in Runcorn and in 1934 at the age of 16 became an undergraduate in the physics department at the University of Liverpool. The following year James Chadwick was appointed Professor of Physics at the university, shortly after he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving the existence of the neutron. During the time that Holt was a student, Chadwick built a cyclotron, then a newly invented research tool, in the physics department. Holt graduated with first class honours in 1938 and won the Oliver Lodge Prize. Chadwick took him on as a research student describing him as "the best research student he had ever supervised".
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