Robert G. (Bob) Chambers (1924 – 17 December 2016) was a British

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

. He won the 1994

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of the

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"for his many contributions to

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, in particular his ingenious and technically demanding experiment which verified the

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concerning the behaviour of charged particles in magnetic fields"

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Professor Robert G. Chambers, 1924-2024
School of Physics, University of Bristol 1924 births 2016 deaths Academics of the University of Bristol British physicists Place of birth missing Fellows of the American Physical Society {{UK-physicist-stub