Brebis Bleaney
Brebis Bleaney CBE FRS was a British physicist. His main area of research was the use of microwave techniques to study the magnetic properties of solids. He was head of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford from 1957 to 1977. In 1992, Bleaney received the International Zavoisky Award "for his contribution to the theory and practice of electron paramagnetic resonance of transition ions in crystals."
He was best known to generations of physics students for the standard undergraduate textbook on electromagnetism, Electricity and Magnetism, co-authored with his wife Betty.
