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Paul Taunton Matthews
Born 19 November 1919 (1919-11-19)
Erode, British India (present-day Tamil Nadu, India)
Died 26 February 1987(1987-02-26) (aged 67)
Nationality British
Alma mater Clare College, Cambridge
Awards Order of the British Empire
Fellow of the Royal Society
Adams Prize (1958)
Rutherford Medal and Prize (1978)
Scientific career
Fields Theoretical Physics
Institutions Imperial College London
University of Bath
Science and Engineering Research Council
Doctoral advisor Nicholas Kemmer
Doctoral students Faheem Hussain
Christopher Isham
Ghulam Murtaza
Other notable students Abdus Salam
Stanley Mandelstam
John Stewart Bell
Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong
Notes
A close friend and mentor of the only Pakistani Nobel Prize holder, Dr. Abdus Salam, and of CERN physicist, Faheem Hussain.

Paul Taunton Matthews CBE FRS (19 November 1919 – 26 February 1987) was a British theoretical physicist.

Biography

Matthews was born in Erode in British India, and was educated at Mill Hill School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he was awarded MA and PhD degrees. He was awarded the Adams Prize in 1958, elected to the Royal Society in 1963, and awarded the Rutherford Medal and Prize in 1978. He became head of the Physics Department of Imperial College, London and later vice chancellor of the University of Bath. He was also awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath in 1983. He was also chairman of the Nuclear Physics Board of the Science Research Council.

He died in Cambridge from injuries sustained in a cycling accident.

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