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n ,,! P. M. S. BLACKETT, professor of physics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology of the Univer- sity of London since 1953, is distin- guished both as a physicist and as an adviser to the British Government on military and scienti
c policy. A graduate of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society, he won the Nolacl prize in physics in 19-13. i-le went into physics from the Royal Navy, a graduate nl the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and a veteran of the Battle of jutland. From 1934 to the begin- ning of World War It Blaclaett served on the Aeronautical Research Committee headed by Sir Henry Tizard, which de- veloped Britain's radar defense system; his work during the war was instrumen- tal in defeating the German submarine campaign. Since the war he has played a leading role in public discussion of military questions; his writings include Atomic 92Veap0ns and East-West Rela- tions, published by Cambridge Univer- sity Press in 1956. Portions of the pres- ent article appeared in the New States- man for March 2, 1962. Bilaliography J Carnque or Sour-: CONTEMPORARY DE- FENCE Tnmxmc. P. M. S. Blaclrett in Encounter, Vol. 16, No. 4, pages 947; April, 1961. Tn: Lmrrrs or DEFENSE. Arthur I. Was- lcow. Doubleday 6: Company, Inc., 1962.