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Rendel Sebastian (Bas) Pease FRS 1977 Pres. IOP 1978 - 1980
Rendel Sebastian (Bas) Pease FRS 1977 Pres. IOP 1978 - 1980
born November 2, 1922 died October 17, 2004
Obituaries published in: The Times October 26, 2004
Bas Pease was a distinguished advocate of the peaceful application of nuclear power for the generation of electricity. His major research involved the use of X-ray crystallography to study the positions of hydrogen atoms in crystals and the structure of solids. In 1955, with George Kinchin, he published a paper on the mechanism of damage by radiation in a reactor core, providing a crucial theoretical model of how heavy fast particles and gamma rays behave when they pass through a solid. In 1961 he was Appointed Division head at Culham Laboratory for Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion.
His family was a very political one, committed to Fabian Socialism. Between 1988 and 2002 he was Chairman of the British Pugwash Group, which works, among other things, for the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons to countries which do not now have them, and for the abolition of the existing nuclear arsenals. He was also an accomplished musician.
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