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Walter Marshall (born 1932 in Rumney, Wales, died 1996) studied mathematical physics at Birmingham University and gained a PhD there under Rudolf Peierls. He joined the Theoretical Physics Division at AERE Harwell in 1954, succeeding Brian Flowers as Head of that Division in 1960 and becoming Director of AERE in 1968; he eventually was appointed Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in 1981. As a champion of nuclear power, he was appointed, in 1983, to be chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board. For his success in keeping the country’s “lights on” during the protracted miners’ strike of 1984-5, Mrs Thatcher rewarded him with a peerage and he became Lord Marshall of Goring. In 1989, with the government’s plan to reorganise and part-privatise electricity generation, the position of Chairman of the CEGB disappeared. With his close association with nuclear power, he failed to keep his post as Chairman of National Power. Lord Marshall then entered into several jobs in the private sector connected with the nuclear industry and died in 1996.
As a scientist, Marshall was recognised as one of the leading theoreticians in the atomic properties of matter and characterised by his penetrating analytical powers. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971.
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- The Marshall papers are currently being catalogued by the NCUACS, Bath, England [1]. Deposit in the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, is expected in the spring of 2009.
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