Donald Hill Perkins

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rdf:langString Donald Hill Perkins CBE FRS (15 October 1925 – 30 October 2022) was a British physicist and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford. He achieved great success in the field of particle physics and was also known for his books. Perkins was born in 1925 and educated at Imperial College London. In 1945 he received his B.Sc. and 1948, a Ph.D. From 1949 he worked at Bristol University and in 1955/56 at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley. In 1956 he received the post of reader in Bristol University. In 1963/64 he conducted research at CERN. In 1965 he became Oxford professor of elementary particle physics. There, under the leadership of Denys Wilkinson, he built, along with , the new Department of Nuclear Physics. In 1976/77 and 1983/84 he returned to CERN on sabbatical leave. In 1998 he retired and became Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.