10 March 2004, following a stroke, and was cremated in Cambridge on the 18th . Appointments and awards 1944 MBE 1944-1952 University Lecturer in Physics, Cambridge University 1947-1973 Head of the Royal Society Mond Laboratory 1947-1973 Corporate Official Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1952-1973 Reader in Physics 1953 FRS 1964 Awarded Fritz London Memorial Prize 1973-1978 Professor of Physics (Emeritus) 1973-1978 Head of the Low Temperature Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory 1973-2004 Life Fellow 1982 International Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences 1995 Awarded Hughes Medal References 1911 births 2004 deaths British physicists Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Latymer Upper School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge British Jews English people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Jewish scientists Members of the Order of the British Empire