[BITList] Building the Bomb

[Michael Feltham]

John,

What a fascinating man !

Mike
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On 8 Mar 2012, at 07:12, John Feltham wrote:






To read this Life of the Day complete with a picture of the subject,
visit http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2012-03-08



Penney,  William George, Baron Penney  (1909-1991), mathematical physicist and public servant, was born at 4E Block, Naval Hospital Road, Gibraltar, on 24 June 1909, the only son and eldest of the three children of William Alfred Penney (b. 1881), sergeant-major in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and his wife, Blanche Evelyn, daughter of Henry Alfred Johnson. Penney's mother had been chief cashier in a Co-operative store before her marriage.