Bas Pease

Bas Pease

Rendel Sebastian "Bas" Pease FRS (1922- 17 October 2004) was a British physicist.

Pease's father was the geneticist Michael Pease, son of Edward Reynolds Pease. His mother was Helen Bowen Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood IV. He was the great-great-great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood.

He was director of the Culham Laboratory for Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion (1968-1981) and head of the British chapter of Pugwash (1988-2002).

External links

* http://www.pugwash.org/uk/documents/SEBASTIAN%20PEASEObit17.10.04.pdf
* http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1328426,00.html


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