Denys Wilkinson
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Sir Denys Haigh Wilkinson FRS (born 5 September 1922 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a British nuclear physicist. He was educated at at Loughborough Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He holds the higher degree of ScD, an HonFilDr degree and an HonLLD degree.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956 and he won the Hughes Medal in 1965 and the Royal Medal in 1980. He has been an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, since 1961.
In 2001 the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Oxford, which he helped to create, was renamed as the Denys Wilkinson Building in his honour.[1]