John Randall (physicist) - Honors

Honors

  • In 1938 Randall was awarded a DSc by the University of Manchester.
  • In 1943 he was awarded (with H. A. H. Boot) the Thomas Gray memorial prize of the Royal Society of Arts for the invention of the cavity magnetron.
  • In 1945 he became Duddell medallist of the Physical Society of London and shared a payment from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors for the magnetron invention, and in 1946 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society and became its Hughes medalist.
  • Further awards (with Boot) for the magnetron work were, in 1958, the John Price Wetherill medal of the Franklin Institute of the state of Pennsylvania and, in 1959, the John Scott award of the city of Pennsylvania.
  • In 1962 he was knighted, and in 1972 he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
DNA structure research at King's College London 1947-1959
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  • Raymond Gosling
  • John Randall
  • Alexander Stokes
  • Maurice Wilkins
  • Herbert Wilson

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