Nicholas Kemmer
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Nicholas Kemmer (7 December 1911 -- 21 October 1998) was a physicist. Born in St Petersberg, his family moved to Germany in 1922, where was educated at Bismarckschule Hanover and then at the University of Göttingen, did his doctorate at the University of Zurich before moving to the Beit Fellowship at Imperial College London. He moved to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1940 to work on the wartime atomic energy project, and spent two years 1944-1946 in Canada. He went to the University of Edinburgh from 1953-79 as Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics, then Professor Emeritus. He was elected FRS in 1956 and won its Hughes Medal in 1966.
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