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    William George Penney, Baron Penney, OM, KBE, FRS, FRSE (24 June 1909 – 3 March 1991) was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics...
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  • William Penney, Baron Penney (1909–1991) was an English mathematician. William Penney may also refer to: William Penney, Lord Kinloch (1801–1872), Scottish...
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    JCPenney (redirect from JC Penney (store))
    Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is an American department store chain that operates 663 stores across 49 U.S. states...
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  • \dots ,\pm {\frac {N}{2}}\right).} The Kronig–Penney model (named after Ralph Kronig and William Penney) is a simple, idealized quantum-mechanical system...
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    Harold C. Bush became commander of the Base Camp at Trinity. Scientists William Penney, Victor Weisskopf and Philip Moon were consultants. Eventually seven...
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  • The Hon William Penney, Lord Kinloch (1801–1872) was a Scottish judge, and Senator of the College of Justice. The son of William Penney, a manufacturer...
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    that Britain's help would benefit some areas of the project. Chadwick, William Penney, Peierls, Oliphant and other British scientists were important enough...
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    members of the British Mission became group leaders at Los Alamos. William Penney observed the bombing of Nagasaki and participated in the Operation Crossroads...
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    Colonel William P. Fisher, Joyce C. Stearns and David M. Dennison from the USAAF; and scientists John von Neumann, Robert R. Wilson and William Penney from...
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    hostilities ended, a survey team from the Manhattan Project that included William Penney, Robert Serber, and George T. Reynolds was sent to Hiroshima to evaluate...
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    charge of the Aircraft Ordnance Team. Physicists Robert Serber and William Penney, and US Army Captain James F. Nolan, a medical expert, were special...
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    called High Explosive Research, and was directed by Lord Portal, with William Penney in charge of bomb design. Implicit in the decision to develop atomic...
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    was renamed the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), with William Penney appointed as the first director. In 1954 AWRE was transferred to the...
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    William F. Penney (1862 – 1934) was a merchant, judge and political figure in Newfoundland. He represented Carbonear in the Newfoundland and Labrador...
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    plant at Capenhurst began producing highly enriched uranium in 1954. William Penney directed bomb design from Fort Halstead. In 1951 his design group moved...
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    Szilard John von Neumann William Penney, Baron Penney "Homi Jehangir Bhabha". Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2023. Penney, L. (1967). "Homi Jehangir...
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    Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire included William Penney, William Cook, Ken Allen, Samuel Curran, Henry Hulme, Bryan Taylor and John...
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    Penney (also spelled Penny) is a common surname of British origin. The name Penney dates from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It was derived...
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    board of inquiry met under the chairmanship of Sir William Penney from 17 to 25 October 1957. The "Penney Report" was submitted to the Chairman of the United...
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    work began at Aldermaston to develop the British fusion bomb, with Sir William Penney in charge of the project. British knowledge on how to make a thermonuclear...
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    the available evidence. In 1934, the English mathematical physicist William Penney and the Scottish physicist Gordon Sutherland proposed a molecular structure...
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    Left to right: William Penney, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls and John Cockcroft in 1946...
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    distinguished scientists such as Geoffrey Taylor, James Tuck, Niels Bohr, William Penney, Frisch, Ernest Titterton and Klaus Fuchs, who was later revealed to...
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    Kirk Samuel Penney (born 23 November 1980) is a New Zealand former professional basketball player. He is the all-time leading scorer for New Zealand's...
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    was no closer to securing access to it than it had been in 1950. When William Penney, the Chief Superintendent Armament Research, visited South Australia...
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    his British citizenship. The head of the British H-bomb project, Sir William Penney, visited Fuchs in prison in 1952. While imprisoned, Fuchs was friendly...
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    At Cambridge, Nobel Prize in Physics laureates George Paget Thomson and William Lawrence Bragg wanted the government to take urgent action to acquire uranium...
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    of Cambridge Doctoral advisor Ralph Howard Fowler Doctoral students William Penney John Pople Charles Coulson Samuel Francis Boys Andrew Crowther Hurley...
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  • development of atomic bombs, and endorsed Portal's proposal to place William Penney, the Chief Superintendent Armament Research (CSAR) at Fort Halstead...
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    the technology to make a thermonuclear weapon (an H-bomb), and he put William Penney, a British professor who had worked in the Manhattan Project, in charge...
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