Fort Halstead - Distinguished Former Staff

Distinguished Former Staff

  • Richard, Baron Beeching of East Grinstead, "Dr Beeching", author of the report The Reshaping of British Railways
  • Sir Alwyn Crow, developer of the Unrotated Projectile
  • Sir Frank Ewart Smith
  • Dr Douglas Hartree, after whom the Hartree unit of atomic energy is named, and the Hartree–Fock method of approximating n-body wavefunctions
  • Sir John Lennard-Jones, devisor of the Lennard-Jones potential description of atomic attraction
  • Dr J.W. Maccoll, of Taylor-Maccoll theory of supersonic flow over a cone
  • Sir Nevill Mott, Nobel Laureate in Physics
  • William, Baron Penney of East Hendred, a principal scientist on the Manhattan Project, and leader of Britain's High Explosive Research project

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