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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Gibraltarian people, Spanish people from Gibraltar, William Penney, Baron Penney, History of the Genoese in Gibraltar, John Montresor, List of Gibraltarians, James Richard Dacres, George Tierney, Simon Susarte, Felix Alvarez, Charlotte Lennox, Juan Mateos, Juan Romero de Figueroa, Frederick Stanley Maude, William Rooke Creswell, Alonso Hernandez del Portillo, Edward Bell, Henry Francis Cary, Diego de Astorga y Cespedes, History of the Maltese in Gibraltar, Wallace Duffield Wright, Tim Buzaglo, Thomas William Bowlby, Tony Macedo, Ernest Walter Davie Western, Gibraltarians in the United Kingdom, Francis Oliva, Gonzalo Pina Luduena, James Donnet, Carmen Proetta, Henry Wheeler, Anne O'Garra, Francisco Porro y Reinado, Rowland Rees, Peter Dignan, Samuel Bradburn, Gerard Teuma, Davina Barbara, May Hezlet, Jeremy Campbell-Lamerton, Charles Elliot Allen, Gibraltarian Australian. Excerpt: William George Penney, Baron Penney, BA, MA, PhD, DSc, OM, KBE, FRS, FRSE, FIC, Hon FCGI (24 June 1909 - 3 March 1991) was a British mathematician who was responsible for the development of British nuclear technology, following World War II. For this developmental role, Penney is widely regarded as Father of British nuclear programme. A mathematician by training, he became an expert on, and widely known for his contribution in wave dynamics, both in Shock and Gravitational waves. He was one of the world's leading authorities on the effects of nuclear weapons; and he was tasked with the development of the British atomic bomb. The son of a sergeant-major in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Royal Army), William George "Bill" Penney was born in Gibraltar on 24 June 1909, and raised in Sheerness, Kent. He attended a technical school in Colchester where he completed his technical studies. From 1924 to 1926, he was educated at Sheerness Technical Hi...
