James L. Tuck
British physicist
Died when: 70 years 341 days (851 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
James Leslie Tuck OBE, (9 January 1910 – 15 December 1980) was a British physicist.He was born in Manchester, England, and educated at the Victoria University of Manchester.
Because of his involvement with the Manhattan Project, he was unable to submit his thesis on time and never received his doctoral degree.
In 1937 he was offered an appointment as a at Oxford University, where he worked with Leó Szilárd on particle accelerators.
At the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed as the scientific advisor to Frederick Alexander Lindemann, who was on the private staff of Winston Churchill.
His research included work on shaped charges, used in anti-tank weapons.For this work was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by King George VI.
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