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Barnes Wallis
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II.
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science · English engineer and inventor (1887–1979) · engineer · inventor · physicist · military flight engineer · also Barnes Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, Barnes Wallace, Wallis
Born 26 September 1887 · Died 30 October 1979 · Q719717
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK” in The Lancet — cited 4,170 times.
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2013· 2 entries
And was officially reopened by Mary Stopes-Roe, Barnes Wallis's daughter, on 13 March 2014
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Published “The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome” in Nature — cited 4,663 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,648 times.
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1979· 1 entry
Died 1979-10-30.
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1975· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1975).
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1968· 2 entries
Won Albert Medal (1968).
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1968).
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1957· 2 entries
Was appointed Treasurer and Chairman of the Council of Almoners of Christ's Hospital, holding the post of Treasurer for nearly 13 years
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(the Sandystorm), although Vickers continued model trials with some support from the RAE
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1955· 1 entry
Wallis agreed to act as a consultant to the project to build the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia
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1952· 1 entry
Published “Use of Ranks in One-Criterion Variance Analysis” in Journal of the American Statistical Association — cited 13,754 times.
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1951· 1 entry
To allow them to set up the RAF Foundationers' Trust, assisting the children of RAF personnel killed or injured in action to attend the school
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1945).
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Was knighted in 1968, and received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1969
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1943· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1943).
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Awarded Royal Designer for Industry (1943).
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1942· 1 entry
Wallis began experimenting with skipping marbles over water tanks in his garden, leading to his April 1942 paper "Spherical Bomb – Surface Torpedo"
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1939· 1 entry
Wallis saw a need for strategic bombing to destroy the enemy's ability to wage war and he wrote a paper titled "A Note on a Method of Attacking the Axis Powers"
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1930· 2 entries
The R100 was broken up following the crash in northern France of its sister ship, the R101 (which was designed and built by a team from the Air Ministry)
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For 49 years, from 1930 until his death, Wallis lived with his family in Effingham, Surrey, and he is now buried at the local St.
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1922· 1 entry
Took a degree in engineering via the University of London External Programme
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1918· 1 entry
And Wallis concentrates his energies on developing a machine for time travel
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1913· 1 entry
When an opportunity arose for him as an aircraft designer, at first working on airships and later aeroplanes
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-09-26.
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