P. R. Wallace, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

P. R. Wallace

Canadian physicist

Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1915

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 20-Mar-2006

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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(Philip Russell; "Phil") Wallace (April 19, 1915 – March 20, 2006) was a Canadian theoretical physicist and long-time professor at McGill University.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India).
He had a distinguished career as educator, researcher, and activist in science and society, but he is increasingly well known for his pioneering paper in 1947 on the band structure of graphite, and particularly graphene, the subject of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.