Boris Davison

Boris Davison (7 October 1908 – 24 January 1961) was a Russian-born mathematical physicist.

Biography Boris Borisovich Davison was born 7 October 1908 in Vasilsursk, Gorky Oblast, Russia. He attended Leningrad State University, graduating in 1931. In October 1945 he briefly joined the British Mission at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, part of the Manhattan Project which had just developed the atom bomb. In 1946 Davison married Olga Hansen.

He worked at Chalk River Laboratory in Ontario before returning to the UK in 1947 to work at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire. He was given a year's leave of absence working at the University of Birmingham.

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