Nicholas Kemmer

Nicholas Kemmer
Born	(1911-12-07)7 December 1911 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	21 October 1998(1998-10-21) (aged 86) Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Citizenship	British–German–Russian
Alma mater	University of Göttingen University of Zurich Imperial College London
Known for	British nuclear programme Neutron scattering Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau algebra
Awards	Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize (1984) Max Planck Medal (1983) J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1975) Hughes Medal (1966) FRS (1956)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics
Institutions	Tube Alloys Manhattan Project Trinity College, Cambridge Berkeley Radiation Laboratory University of Edinburgh
Doctoral advisor	Wolfgang Pauli Gregor Wentzel
Doctoral students	Abdus Salam Paul Taunton Matthews Richard Dalitz John Stephen Roy Chisholm Lalit Mohan Nath

Nicholas Kemmer FRS FRSE (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.