About George Richard Pickett
Lived 1939 – 2024 (aged 85). George Richard Pickett was a British physicist, known for Cryogenics.
George Richard Pickett FRS (10 April 1939 – 21 July 2024) was a British physicist who was Professor of Low Temperature Physics at Lancaster University.
Life and career Pickett was born on 10 April 1939. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 1962; DPhil).
In 1988, Pickett was elected a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society In 1998 he was awarded the Simon Memorial Prize.
In 2023 he was awarded an honorary degree by the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He died in Lancaster, Lancashire on 21 July 2024, at the age of 85.
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