Norman Feather, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British physicist
Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1904
Place of Birth: Wadsworth, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 14-Aug-1978
Profession: nuclear physicist
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Norman Feather
- Norman Feather FRS FRSE PRSE (16 November 1904, Pecket Well, Yorkshire – 14 August 1978, Christie Hospital, Manchester), was an English nuclear physicist.
- Feather and Egon Bretscher were working at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1940, when they proposed that the 239 isotope of element 94 (plutonium) would be better able to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.
- This research, a breakthrough, was part of the Tube Alloys project, the secret British project during World War II to develop nuclear weapons. Feather was the author of a series of noted introductory texts on the history, fundamental concepts, and meaning of physics.
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