Moses Blackman

Moses Blackman FRS (6 December 1908 – 3 June 1983) was a South African-born British crystallographer. The son of Esther (née Oshry) and Rabbi Joseph Blackman. resulting in another PhD. He was very soon invited back to Imperial College by George Thomson. He joined the Physics Department as an assistant lecturer in 1937, and was soon seen as the theoretical physicist of the department.

After the war, Blackman turned his attention to electron diffraction. "Under Blackman’s leadership the electron diffraction group flourished for many years, and a total of about 20 research students completed doctorates between 1949 and 1977".

During his career Blackman was a member of the International Commission on Electron Diffraction, 1957–66, and of the Safety in Mines Research Advisory Board, Ministry of Power, 1963–74.

Family

Moses Blackman married Anne Olivia Warburton (née Court), a former stenographer from Sydney, in 1959. The marriage was terminated a few years later.

At the time of his death, on 3 June 1983, he lived at 48, Garden Royal, Kersfield Road, Putney.