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Nicholas Kemmer was born on 7 December, 1911 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, is a British physicist. Discover Nicholas Kemmer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 7 December 1911
Birthday 7 December
Birthplace Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Date of death 21 October, 1998
Died Place Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Nationality Russia

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1911

Nicholas Kemmer (7 December 1911 – 21 October 1998) was a Russian-born nuclear physicist working in Britain, who played an integral and leading edge role in United Kingdom's nuclear programme, and was known as a mentor of Abdus Salam – a Nobel laureate in physics.

Nicholas was born to Nicholas P. Kemmer and Barbara Stutzer in Saint Petersburg.

1922

His family moved to Germany in 1922, where he was educated at Bismarckschule Hanover and then at the University of Göttingen.

1936

He received his doctorate in nuclear physics at the University of Zurich and worked as an assistant to Wolfgang Pauli, who had to give strong arguments in 1936, before being allowed to employ a non-Swiss national.

Later on, Kemmer moved to the Beit Fellowship at Imperial College London.

1940

Kemmer moved to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1940 to work on Tube Alloys, the wartime atomic energy project.

In 1940, when Egon Bretscher and Norman Feather showed that a slow neutron reactor fuelled with uranium would in theory produce substantial amounts of plutonium-239 as a by-product, Kemmer (who was lodging at the Bretschers') proposed the names Neptunium for the new element 93 and Plutonium for 94 by analogy with the outer planets Neptune and Pluto beyond Uranus (uranium being element 92).

The Americans Edwin M. McMillan and Philip Abelson at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, who had made the same discovery, fortuitously suggested the same names.

1944

Kemmer spent 1944–1946 in Canada.

1953

In 1953 he became the third Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, succeeding the retiring Max Born.

1954

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1954.

His proposers were Norman Feather, Max Born, Sir Edmund Whittaker and Alexander Aitken.

1955

He founded the Tait Institute of Mathematical Physics in 1955 and taught at Edinburgh until 1979.

1956

Kemmer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956 and won its Hughes Medal in 1966.

1971

He served as the Society's Vice-President from 1971 to 1974.

1975

He was awarded the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize in 1975.

Nicholas Kemmer was also a mentor and a teacher of the only Pakistani Nobel laureate, Dr. Abdus Salam.

Kemmer is credited to trained and work with Salam in Neutron scattering by using relativity equations.

The Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau equation (DKP equation, also called Duffin–Kemmer equation or Kemmer equation) plays a role in the description of the standard model of particles, together with the Yang-Mills field.

The Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau equation is closely linked to the Proca equation and the Klein–Gordon equation.

The DKP equation suffers the same drawback as the Klein–Gordon equation in that it calls for negative probabilities.

The equation involves matrices which obey the Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau algebra.

The work leading to the DKP equation, culminating in Kemmer's article, has been quoted as "the first attempt at writing down a satisfactory relativistic theory of elementary particles beyond the electron", and these equations have later been brought in unified form with the Dirac equation by Homi J. Bhabha.

Nicholas Kemmer Road in Edinburgh University's King's Buildings complex is named in his honour.