Robert G. (Bob) Chambers (1924 – 17 December 2016) was a British

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

. He won the 1994

Hughes Medal The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications". Named after David E. Hughes, the medal is awarded with ...

of the

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"for his many contributions to solid-state physics, in particular his ingenious and technically demanding experiment which verified the

Aharonov–Bohm effect The Aharonov–Bohm effect, sometimes called the Ehrenberg–Siday–Aharonov–Bohm effect, is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an electrically charged particle is affected by an electromagnetic potential (φ, A), despite being confine ...

concerning the behaviour of charged particles in magnetic fields"

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Professor Robert G. Chambers, 1924-2016
School of Physics, University of Bristol 1924 births 2016 deaths Academics of the University of Bristol British physicists Place of birth missing Fellows of the American Physical Society {{UK-physicist-stub