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Nicol Peacock
07 February 1931 - 19 July 2008
Culham Laboratory
Oxfordshire, UK
Submitted by Physics Today Editorial Staff
Published on 11 August 2008
Current comments and reminiscences on Nicol Peacock:
Nicol Peacock
The Guardian
Nicol Peacock: Physicist
The Times Online
Rest in peace Uncle Nicol.
Jamieson Peacock
Nic was a contemporary of mine, older by 1 year. We first met at what is now the Culham Lab (Harwell then?) in 1960 when I spent a month there learning vacuum‑uv spectroscopy as part of my PhD thesis project, working with Peter McWhirter and others including Nic. Over the years we became good friends as well as colleagues and he once stayed at my home during a visit to DC. I well recall his stressful and extremely difficult Russian experiment and his excellent and convincing presentation in LA. I have recently had occasion to communicate with him by email. He will be sorely missed by all of us in the spectroscopy community.
Ray Elton, Sr. Res. Sci.
University of Maryland
Nicol Peacock was a valued friend and scientific advisor to me over a number of years. I visited him in England and he visited me in Washington a number of times, and also we both attended a number of scientific conferences together. He usually was on the cutting edge of a number of very useful diagnostic techniques which were used to determine the properties of high temperature plasmas. He was a respected authority in his area of expertise, and presented many papers at scientific meetings. He was an outstanding scientist and will be greatly missed.
Edgar McLean
Washington, D. C.