Charlie Martin
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1926 – 1999
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Who was Charlie Martin?
John Christopher "Charlie" Martin CBE was a UK-born physicist, known colloquially as "the father of Pulsed Power".
He was educated at Kings College, London.
He was instrumental in the development of a US Nuclear Weapons Effects programme in the 1970s and received thanks in the history of the Defence Nuclear Agency. He was later awarded the Defence Nuclear Agency Gold Medal in 1977, one of only a few non-US citizens to receive it.
He was awarded the first ever Erwin Marx Award in 1981 at the 3rd IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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- Born
- Sep 21, 1926
London - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- King's College London
- Died
- Mar 22, 1999
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on July 23, 2013
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