Background
Pickett was born in 1939 and educated at Bedford Modern School and Magdalen College, Oxford (Bachelor 1962.
Pickett was born in 1939 and educated at Bedford Modern School and Magdalen College, Oxford (Bachelor 1962.
Magdalen College.
Pickett was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and then Head of the Department of Physics at Lancaster University. In the 1996 Nobel Prize citation of physicist David Lee, cr was given to Pickett and his research group for their work on 3He.
Royal Society]
In 1988, Pickett was elected a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2006 a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
