Background
Wilkinson, Denys Haigh was born on September 5, 1922 in Leeds, England. Son of Charles and Hilda Wilkinson.
administrator educator physicist
Wilkinson, Denys Haigh was born on September 5, 1922 in Leeds, England. Son of Charles and Hilda Wilkinson.
Bachelor, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1943. Master of Arts, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1947.
Doctor of Science, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1961. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Saskatchewan. Doctor of Science (honorary), Utah State University.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Guelph. Doctor of Science (honorary), Queen's University, Ontario, Canada. Doctor of Science (honorary), College William and Mary.
FilDr (honorary), University Uppsala. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Sussex, England.
With British Atomic Energy Project, 1943-1946, Canada Atomic Energy Project, 1945-1946. Demonstrator Cavendish Laboratory, University Cambridge, England, 1947-1951, lecturer England, 1951-1956, reader England, 1950-1957, honorary fellow England, since 1961. Professor nuclear physics Clarendon Laboratory, University Oxford, England, 1957-1959, professor experimental physics England, 1959-1976, head department nuclear physics England, 1962-1976.
Vice chancellor Sussex University, 1976-1987. Member governing board National Institute Research Nuclear science, 1958—1964. Rutherford Memorial lecturer British Physical Society, 1962, Royal Society New Zealand, 1991.
Queen's lecturer, Berlin, 66. Member Science Research Council, 1967—1970. Chairman S. R. C. Nuclear Physics Board, 1968—1970, Physics III committee, European Organization of Nuclear Research, Geneva, 1971—1975, Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee, 1978—1983.
Cherwell-Simon Memorial lecturer, Oxford, 1970. Battelle Distinguished professor University Washington, 1970. Tizard Memorial lecturer, 75.
Lauritsen Memorial lecturer California Institute of Technology, 1976. Schiff Memorial lecturer Stanford University, 1977. Racah Memorial lecturer University Jerusalem, 1977.
President Institute Physics, 1980—1982. Member Council Association Commonwealth Universities, 1981—1987. W. B. Lewis Memorial lecturer, Chalk River, 1989.
Humphry Davy Memorial lecturer Academy des Sciences, Paris, 1990. B. Sargent Memorial lecturer Queen's University, Kingston, 1998.
Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (foreign).
Married Christiane Clavier, 1947 (divorced). 3 children; Married Helen Sellschop, 1967.